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amelchi
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contemporary music fonts

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does somebody know about fonts for contemporary techniques like, for instance, "open diamond" for strings...?

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I think that Bravura has the most, if not all symbols for the contemporary music.
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In addition to Bravura as OCTO suggested, I'd recommend looking into the neueweise fonts for an incredible variety of less traditional symbols.

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amelchi wrote: 14 Jul 2020, 15:39 "open diamond" for strings...?
By the way, what is open diamond, do you have a picture?
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I see, it is a kind of "sciarrino" notehead. Have you checked Bravura?
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amelchi wrote: 14 Jul 2020, 15:39 does somebody know about fonts for contemporary techniques like, for instance, "open diamond" for strings...?

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amelchi
The November 2 font by Robert Piechaud has this, and a tonne of other new music symbols.
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