Jack Yan (b. 1972, Hong-Kong) now lives in Wellington, New Zealand, where he founded Jack Yan and Associates (JY&A) in 1987, the first kiwi digital typefoundry. He designed over 100 typefaces, which mostly share calligraphic roots---his lower case f is like a signature Yan glyph.

He designed the extensive family Aetna, digitized based upon 16th century work by Francesco Griffo and Giovanni Antonio Tagliente. It is Yan's version of Bembo.

His other font families include (2011, a sans companion for JY Décennie), Integrity JY (2002), Pinnacle JY (1995-1996, +Bold), Rebeca JY (1993), Tranquility (1994-1995) and Yan Series 333 (1987-1993). JY Koliba (by Jure Stojan, 2001) is a sans serif typeface family based on Slovenian architects' lettering of the 1940s. Other typefaces include Dandy JY (2012: Originally created for a theatre project at Massey University, Dandy is reminiscent of Pablo Ferro's hand-lettering), Comic Pro JY (1999, by Antonio Gonzalez de Santiago for Jack Yan), Novalis JY (2008, an anthroposophic family), Boum-Boum (2002) and Alia JY (2008-2009, an aldine serif family).

JY Pressly (2012, a serif family) was originally designed for Lucire, and destined for web and print use.

Arts and Crafts alphabet by JY&A.

Interview.

Klingspor link.

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INTERNAL LINKS
Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿ Hong Kong font scene ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type design in Slovenia ⦿ Type in Australia ⦿ Type in New Zealand ⦿ Arts and Crafts Movement ⦿ Anthroposophy and type design ⦿

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