Splentino - by benwiggy

[OCTO]

I have seen that Dorico features a new font called Splentino, by our forum member benwiggy!

https://www.scoringnotes.com/reviews/dorico-6/

Thanks for that.

[tisimst]

Great work, Ben! Looks like a wonderful addition for the industry.

[jrethorst]

It's a variation on the fine traditional font Plantin, and it's very well done. Thanks Ben.

[benwiggy]

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/

[NeeraWM]

Hi Ben,
do you know how to get the ordinals to work with Splentino? When I activate them in the Paragraph Styles dialog, the 'st', 'nd', 'rd', 'th' do not react and stay on the baseline.
Thanks!

[benwiggy]

I haven't done superscript or subscript. There are the masculine and feminine º ª characters, but that's it.

[NeeraWM]

Ah ok, no problem.
What is the "ordinals" OpenType feature doing then when activated?

[benwiggy]

It's automatically generated by FontLab:

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sub [zero one two three four five six seven eight nine] [A a]' by ordfeminine;
 sub [zero one two three four five six seven eight nine] [O o]' by ordmasculine;

[Wescott]

Yes, thanks for Splentino, Ben. Didn't know you created it. I'm using it in some of my templates.