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Here's another site that points to many of the known free/commercial music notation fonts out there:
http://musicfonts.net/notation/
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Here's another interesting set of historical typefaces that have been digitized:
https://www.fontshop.com/foundries/urtext-music-fonts
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tisimst, those historical typefaces are fascinating and are so well done. (I love the clefs.) Is anyone actually using these? The thought of doing an Urtext edition in a font of a composer's own time is intriguing but would not seem commercially viable. Do you know who did those fonts? There is very little information on the website.
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Indeed, they are quite interesting. I have absolutely NO idea if anyone actually uses them. I found out about them after seeing a couple of posts featured on sibeliusblog (so maybe Philip Rothman knows someone who uses them?):
http://www.sibeliusblog.com/news/urtext ... -fontshop/
http://www.sibeliusblog.com/news/leipzi ... -fontshop/

I tried contacting the designer Stephen Carisse once , but I never got a response back. If anyone wants to try and contact him, send me a PM to get his address.
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one of my attempt on Sibelius .. to make Henle style .. dunno if it is even close :(
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I think that emulating a publisher's style that rely on just music fonts doesn't make so great effect. Everything from music spacing, lines' thickness, beam setings, stem lengths, slur shapes, hairpin settings.. etc etc must be emulated to be close to a particular style.
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I think Henle uses a version of Bodoni as their text font.
Their beams (almost) never crosses spaces (like the one in m. 29).

Also, are the stems supposed to extend that far above the flags?
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At one point in the interview, Stephen Carisse says he uses CorelDraw to design his fonts, but then mentions Adobe InDesign as a font-designing option. That must have been a mistake, right? Adobe Illustrator, perhaps? And he makes no mention of the various high powered font design tools. Very strange.
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CorelDraw is just a professional alternative to Illustrator, isn't it? As such it is considered a 'high powered' tool, I think.

I can't see how InDesign would be relevant to font designers, except for testing the output of any implemented OpenType features. I'm sure Illustrator is what he meant.
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Knut wrote:CorelDraw is just a professional alternative to Illustrator, isn't it? As such it is considered a 'high powered' tool, I think.
It is absolutely right.
Nowadays I have no idea how this application works,b because for more than 15 y.a. when I was using a PC this was the most demanding and "must have" tool.
There were possibilities to select particular font and even size of it – something that I hardly need in my daily work in Illustrator, but never found.
Instead of it, this could be substituted with another smart option (seen in Finale, and possibly in Sibelius) — printing colorised layers.

Corel Draw (at least its last 13-th version for PC) utilises font generation.
However, the best way to create any particular font for me remains Illustrator and Font Lab Studio.
Both software work together very well. Copy-past form app to app is amazing. No need to export any kind of files.
However this does not applies to Corel and any kind of font apps.
IMO, Corel Draw allows such an easier editing method that has never been seen within any of its contemporary competitors.
Unfortunately, the only MAC version I know is very old — for PowerMac and needs Roseta – that means OS X 10.6.8 at last or Snow Leo Server, as I use one as a virtual machine.
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