It took me a while to fully appreciate the issue that Twitter user Yoshimasa Niwa was describing. At first glance I and many others assumed that setting Japanese over English […]
Japanese Typography
Apple’s Once and Future Japanese Variable System Font
2020 is the coming out party for Apple designed OpenType variable fonts, both the SF Pro and SF Compact system fonts and the all-new New York font shipping in iOS […]
Apple - Apple Pay Suica - Apple Pay Transit - EMV - MIFARE - Mobile Payments - NFC - NFC-Felica - Suica - Suica App - Transit
iOS 13 Wallet Suica
The arrival of the Suica transit platform on the Apple Pay platform heralded a progression of innovation. October 2016 : Suica is the first transit card on Apple Pay and […]
Apple - Apple Pay + Wallet - Apple Pay Octopus - Apple Pay Suica - Apple Pay Transit - EMV - MIFARE - Mobile Payments - NFC - NFC-Felica - QR Code Payments - Suica - Transit
Transit Gate Evolution: Do QR Codes Really Suck for Transit?
The short answer of course is: yes, QR Codes really suck for transit, which Abacus first reported on when the QR code transit meltdown hit Chengdu last April. Abacus is […]
Apple - Apple Pay + Wallet - Apple Pay Transit - MIFARE - Mobile Payments - NFC - NFC-Felica - QR Code Payments - Transit
Perception and Reality
I like writing but am no writer, so I prescribe to the ‘if you’re not a sharpshooter shoot lots of bullets’ school of wannabes. When the Financial Times, “The painful […]
Apple - Japanese Typography
Fix the rice emoji Apple, it’s gross
Many Japanese have pointed out this already, but the Apple rice emoji is just gross. The rice doesn’t look like cooked rice, it’s grey and unfit for human consumption, like […]
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