NOTATIO

From Daphnis et Chloé by Durand et Cie.
Why pizz and not pizz.?
Saving punches, saving ink, saving space?

Consider for example: … instead of: I think your both version of numbers are very beautiful, and can be used as a text font in (my) scores. The open 4 variant is more "old" looking, and closed 4 variant is more after 1900. I would rather use the closed, more straight variant in my music. ...

I'm not sure I follow this. I am sorry if my english is not on the level of what I want to explain. And what I explain, I hope I am not mistaken. This is just a pure calculation and improvisation: Looking at long, thin hairpins we can easily see "breaks" even in 1200dpi printers. It is re...

One of the possible functions that the rastral sizes could have in the digital engraving is determination of the laser printer fixed outputs, conformity with printers. You can have power of 300, 600, 1200, and so on dpi print outs. And this is very important with lines. In Finale you can have ANY li...

Ben, that is very interesting. The old way of rastral sizes had its logical purpose. One of the "misses" of the digital engraving applications is that they allow resizing to any size equally. Also it is allowed (in Finale) to have each system resized differently and to resize small staves....

As such, in TS I would avoid these. My taste tells me that they cannot be easily readable from 2 meter distance. Yes indeed, my point exactly. The goal is for the numerals in the bold font to be the same as the time signature numerals in the music font. Hopefully the numerals in the regular and ita...

As such, in TS I would avoid these. My taste tells me that they cannot be easily readable from 2 meter distance.

But would composers like OCTO or David even consider using them in their own scores? In general or as the Time Signatures? Not sure about the TS, I feel them to thin. But perhaps I would use them as text such as Flute 2 . If your fonts work perfectly on Windows and OS X I would like to use them. I ...

Knut, FreeSerif is meant to replace all textual fonts at once. For instance, no ONE single font can create latin alphabet and following: - accidentals, clefs, articulation, styled expressions - different types of arrows - extended types of vertical and horizontal braces of any length - non latin alp...