OCTO wrote:Dear DatOrganistTho, sorry for not being so clear. Here I will try to describe what I mean more precisely.
DatOrganistTho wrote:Could you explain what you are meaning by BW-balance? Are you saying the glyphs themselves are too contrasting?
Yes. If you look at any score, you can notice if the complete outlook of that score is balanced, so that symbols are not jumping out neither disappearing.
In your case, I have strong sense for it, tenutos are to fat, they jump out, and in comparison with hairpins they tend to take to much black force. The hairpins are in a way disappearing, to much white. This is just an example, but perhaps other settings could be changed.
In my understanding of BW-balance I include also the following:
- If you have already thin hairpins, which are unbalanced with tenutos in your case above, you have additional "wide opening". It makes the hairpin itself BW-unbalanced, since the wide opening forces to much white space, and that symbol looses the energy: lines are to thin an the white space in the middle "eats up" it.
- If you have slurs that are curved to much on the end, (I feel a bit like that in your case, but here I will continue explaining it in general), and if that curving is without purpose (for instance by avoiding an accidental, but there is no accidental), than the curving takes to much force on the tips of the slur, making it weak, unbalanced.
DatOrganistTho wrote:Also, are you saying that the hairpins are this way and need to change, or that they need to change to this standard?
I think they need to be changed somehow, so that they don't disappear, or in general, other symbols/lines have to be changed as well, so that they became more "harmonic" alltogether.
DatOrganistTho wrote:I can try. Are you saying that the entire font system needs to be different or just individual elements?
I think that Minion is not good here. In my opinion this is why:
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As you can see, Minion has very "sharp" edges, very calligraphic, while your music symbols and lines have extremely soft shapes. You can check this thread:
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DatOrganistTho wrote:Part of this is a learning curve I'm going through with LilyPond. If I could know more detail on what you are describing that would help me understand what I need to learn to tweak.
For instance:
Inconsistent slur distances:
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Inconsistent slur distances, tenutos too close, slur too far away:
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Tenutos too close, slur very 'empty' in the middle (reason is the slur's shape and the tenutos distances):
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mf too far away:
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tenuto too close, slur far away, almost 'going away':
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But if this is your one of the first attempts to use LilyPond - congratulations!
Also, the general BW-balance of the sheet (texture of the staff/page) and spacing is very well done!