Published: 25th May, 2022
Last edited: 22nd January, 2021
Created: 22nd January, 2021
This font is extracted from the displays at buzz! convenience stores (owned by Singapore Press Holdings) littered across Singapore, pixel-by-pixel. While I could not save the other variant, this one has been preserved, right here at FontStruct.
Why was this font named Jorona?
There was a few incidents at the buzz! convenience store at Bukit Panjang Bus Interchange and Hillion Mall, that displayed the news articles from The Straits Times, The Business Times, and Lianhe Zaobao (a Chinese newspaper tabloid, for those of you who don't know). One headline listed the word 'joronavirus' (it was meant to be 'coronavirus' but one of the letters got overwritten by a lowercase 'j'). Hence Jorona was the name of this font.
Are there any more updates to this font?
Unfortunately, there will be no more updates to this font.
All buzz! convenience stores had their exterior displays turned off since 2021.
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A warning to Singapore:
There could be a potentiality that this font could be "censored" by those S9 Singaporeans, in the event that they have reported (did, could have, or in the process of getting) this font as "potential infringement of the Copyright Act of 2021".
Let me tell you something: I have my decision, and I will stand by it, in terms of preservation of those fonts that I have created in FontStruct sourced from anywhere across Singapore.
If there is any takedown request from anyone, even if it is from the mightiest of them all itself, the Singapore Press Holdings, I will rightly refuse.
They have no right to ask me to take it down just because they think that this font, at their own extremely biased view, is a "potential infringement of the Copyright Act of 2021".
Because of those S9 Singaporeans (they think that this intellectual property belongs to Singapore Press Holdings), I will not release this until further note.
Any fonts that are created / published on FontStruct are the copyrighted work of the respective creator.
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