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Seems to be better today.

It's from a book of Eight Masses by De La Hele (currently residing in the "Where Are They Now?" category), in 1578.

Plantin was one of the few printers who took care for the staff lines on each piece of type to line up accurately!

The site is very slow for me, and keeps giving me errors about sending too many requests.

Does it need another gold injection, @OCTO ?

If you're ever in Antwerp, I strongly recommend you go to the Plantin-Moretus Museum. It's housed in the 16th-century house where Christoph Plantijn founded his printing business in the 1550s, and where it continued for over 300 years. While most of it is focused on type and illustrations, there is ...

The Scoring Notes article is here:

https://www.scoringnotes.com/news/dorico-6-0-20/

The Dorico blog article is here:

https://blog.dorico.com/2025/07/dorico-6-0-20-released/

You may be interested in this little article I've written about the creation of the typeface.

https://blog.dorico.com/2025/06/the-spl ... al-scores/

Yes, I'd call it a Tempo equation or metric modulation. Dorico's manual uses "Tempo equations"; but searching for metric modulations will also bring it up (albeit not the first entry). If you just enter "Tempo marks" or "Tempo indications", then one of the first entries...

The JSON values are used when you check the option to use the font's defaults, in the Music Fonts dialog.

Otherwise, Dorico uses the values in Engraving Options, which may be different.

hautbois baryton wrote: ↑23 Jun 2025, 19:02 @benwiggy - in your opinion, what type of works look best for Splentino?

Pretty much anything! On one hand, it's a formal traditional face, like Garamond or Bembo; but I think it has a cuddly warmth that makes it a bit friendlier.

I do love these insights, John. Thank you for posting them.