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I used to have a book that was a little history of '400 years of music printing', produced by the British Library, (sadly, I can't find it on my shelves...), which covered all this stuff in sufficient detail. But this is lovely. And as with notation software, it's true that InDesign doesn't make you...

Just once again, to say how much I love your extraordinary insight.

Is Odod's Arensky font available?

I'm not a big fan of musical handwritten fonts, but this one by Luis Salgueiro is one of the few that I actually quite like. (If that isn't damning it with faint praise!) His blog is here: https://www.lsalgueiro.com/blog/2021/ls-iris-is-finally-for-sale and the font can be bought from Abraham Lee's ...

It does indeed. I'm currently talking to "support" about the fact that you can write the 'note' attribute of a glyph (ie. a comment note, not a musical note!) -- but you can't read it! So in order to use the SMuFL names in the font JSON file, you can either rename the glyphs with the SMuFL...

I've written an article for Scoring Notes about my experience of making a SMuFL font. Not much I haven't expressed here, in one place or other, but it's nice to have it all coming together. https://www.scoringnotes.com/tutorials/how-to-make-a-smufl-font/ I'm working on python scripts for FontLab 7 t...

RMK wrote: ↑24 Feb 2021, 14:22 most likely engraved with SCORE.

If a good engraver can get decent results from any software, then the opposite is also true!

Certainly, the simplest design is to have the flags be identical, just flipped. But that doesn't mean that more precision shouldn't be used.

Interestingly, in the examples of engraved clef changes, the clefs don't sit on the G line, but are much lower: presumably this is done to stop the ball hitting the staff line, and to get the loop at the top sitting nicely in a space.

Isn't that what the gClefSmall glyph in SMuFL is supposed to be? An optically sized clef for use at small sizes. Which would then kind of make sense that as the size approaches full size, the symbols reverts to the 'normal' size one.