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tisimst wrote: ↑23 Sep 2017, 14:11 That's looking really great Knut!

Thanks, tisimst! I've been struggling a lot with multiple passes on the wight, spacing and numerous details. The italics have been especially difficult to design and deal with. Luckily, the learning curve has been steep as well.

Following liuscorne's example, here's the Bruckner with working versions of the music and text fonts I'm currently working on.

As I'm already working hard on trying to meet the needs expressed in this and other threads, I unfortunately can't participate in a collective effort. Although, I'm starting to realize that I'll be out of work if I don't finish soon!

A nice font, but I find it too angular for music work. We have to keep in mind that we're essentially working with universally rounded symbols (treble and bass clef, round noteheads, finely tapered and curved slurs) and most modern text fonts do not harmonize with that aesthetic. I kind of agree, b...

Interesting font I just found by search: https://www.typography.com/fonts/sentinel/styles/ - fine, but maybe to wide. Sentinel is certainly a beautiful slab serif in the same vein as Clarendon. I do think you're right that it would be too wide for most purposes, especially for lyrics. There's also ...

One thing to remember is that although the above examples could very well be true slab-serif designs, I'm inclined to think that the "slab" is actually a printing artifact, where ink is spreading farther than it's supposed to. Hard to tell in this case, but it's a possibility. My 2 cents....

Of course. Generally, though, even with a font like Vienna most of the modern music publishers (Carus, Bärenreiter, etc.) still use basic line weights that are far too heavy compared to the font used (or, rather, that the font is far too light compared to the music), and those are quite conservativ...

I dunno, this looks like Clarendon to me. clarendon.PNG Not that I'd hold 19th-century Novello up as a paragon of engraving quality, but it does nonetheless have precedent. I think you're right. In any case, this is definitely a slab serif. With such a generous amount of space, which most often is ...

I would like to clarify that I was talking about the Clarendon-style slab serifs (Clarendon itself is used on old Novello scores for lyrics, in fact) and not the Rockwell-style ones, which I agree are not suited for music notation. I've only seen versions of the afore mentioned Century and some kin...

Rockwell is one of the most well known geometrical slab serifs. However, in this context, Clarendon is perhaps the most interesting, known to musicians for it's frequent use on jazz album covers: https://dab1nmslvvntp.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1443137285jazz.jpg Clarendon's style is ...