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by benwiggy
20 May 2022, 06:38
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: Florian's Nepomuk - and reimagining a Durand score
Replies: 19
Views: 16022

Re: Florian's Nepomuk - and reimagining a Durand score

I agree that the Bold, certainly, seems a little light compared to the caps. I used Fontlab's "automatic" kerning to standardize most of the letters. I can see your point on the I of incredible, perhaps, but the D of Dante looks almost too close by my reckoning. The rest look pretty good t...
by benwiggy
19 May 2022, 17:35
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: Florian's Nepomuk - and reimagining a Durand score
Replies: 19
Views: 16022

Re: Florian's Nepomuk - and reimagining a Durand score

I've released a new version, 2.03, of Nepomuk. There are now Small Caps variants in both Regular and Bold, so you can use small caps in apps that don't support OpenType features.** (I've actually swapped the lowercase and small caps glyphs, so if you do use it in an app like InDesign, turning ON the...
by benwiggy
18 May 2022, 13:29
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Beethoven brainteaser
Replies: 3
Views: 1558

Re: Beethoven brainteaser

This is 12/8, presumably? Does it match a syncopated pattern elsewhere in the score?
by benwiggy
11 May 2022, 15:12
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: Henle Notehead size
Replies: 4
Views: 3826

Re: Henle Notehead size

Some more data points: Maestro Wide: 1.41 spaces. Finale Engraver: 1.43 spaces. VintageGHMA: both 1.31 and 1.41. Sonata: 1.2. Though some do have different sizes for the black and white noteheads: the black heads being usually smaller, but larger in some fonts! Perhaps a square root of 2 * the space...
by benwiggy
11 May 2022, 13:39
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: Henle Notehead size
Replies: 4
Views: 3826

Henle Notehead size

One thing I noticed while making comparisons to Henle's engraving, is that their noteheads are quite wide. Screenshot 4.png If we compare the width to 1 space, the notehead is about 1.45 spaces (fuzzy bitmapping notwithstanding). Screenshot 6.png Maestro's default noteheads are about 1.27 spaces. Br...
by benwiggy
11 May 2022, 11:40
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: Trill, arpeggio and gliss wavy lines
Replies: 9
Views: 5319

Re: Trill, arpeggio and gliss wavy lines

It's likely that Maestro has only one wavy line character for all types of notation, whereas Finale Maestro will have several different glyphs for different notation types and sub-styles thereof. The SMuFL standard provides several different 'speed' wavy lines for trills, for example.
by benwiggy
10 May 2022, 06:56
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: Trill, arpeggio and gliss wavy lines
Replies: 9
Views: 5319

Re: Trill, arpeggio and gliss wavy lines

Thanks all. I'm revising the wiggly lines in Sebastian precisely because I wasn't entirely happy with them. I've now got this: Screenshot.png where you can see trill, gliss and arpeggio. Here's Maestro: Screenshot.png and here's Bravura: Screenshot.png .... aaand now the differences between them all...
by benwiggy
09 May 2022, 13:19
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: Trill, arpeggio and gliss wavy lines
Replies: 9
Views: 5319

Re: Trill, arpeggio and gliss wavy lines

The few plate engraving examples I have look more like Maestro, but with thinner strokes in the thin bits. (though it's often hard to tell on pixelated scans and photocopies).
by benwiggy
09 May 2022, 10:12
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: Trill, arpeggio and gliss wavy lines
Replies: 9
Views: 5319

Trill, arpeggio and gliss wavy lines

What's your favourite wiggle? I'm looking at the wavy lines used for trills, arpeggios and gliss. The variations are the amplitude, the frequency of repetition, and the thickness of the stroke (and any contrast in stroke as the shape turns). Does anyone have a preference between these two: Screensho...
by benwiggy
01 May 2022, 15:31
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Beams in Singing Voice with Text
Replies: 10
Views: 2844

Re: Beams in Singing Voice with Text

To make the beam starting with the main rhythm would best readable for me. But I have one professional against me. He likes to put the beam like the syllable are going. So he suggests the single flags is right for my example. I agree with Fred: beaming " to the syllables" is very old-fash...