NOTATIO

As another specimen that may be suitable (although one that would require digitization), I propose the lyrics font used by Carus in their choral publications through the 1980s and 1990s (the scan I have attached is from a 1997 score). It is condensed, of relatively high weight and low contrast, and ...

I agree on favouring Old Standard over Century Schoolbook.

I'll do my best to help out wherever I can, though this would be my first time working with fonts in any degree. To be considered for use within my own publications, this font would require: - Rounded edges similar to a font such as EB Garamond. - Relatively low contrast (which works well with the a...

Wow! That's some of the finest computer engraving I've seen, and very close to a "modern" representation of the Peters design elements. I'll have to give that font a try.

I find Kepler too angular for the reasons I mentioned above, although it is otherwise quite the beautiful font.

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. EB Garamond is a fo...

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 conservative...

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...

OCTO, although your font is a welcome improvement on contrast, I find it lacks in two major areas: - The font is too angular in comparison with the smooth and rounded musical fonts we use here. - The original design of the font is simply not elegant enough. These seem, to me, to be limitations of th...