Having written a fair amount of music by hand in my earlier years and performed more, I fail to understand why folks want a handwritten font. I understand that some think that it contributes to a more stylistic reading of some music, but that just doesn't make sense to me.
To me, it seems like photographers trying to digitally insert the appearance of grain in grainless digital files so it will look like film. We spent years trying to minimize grain from film and now that that's no longer necessary, some folks want it back. I don't get it. Not trying to start a fight, just making an observation. Richard Smith > On May 30, 2009, at 12:00 PM, John Howell wrote: > >> At 12:00 AM -0700 5/30/09, Mike Greensill wrote: >>> I thought it might be interesting to copy and paste a posting from >>> Andrew at MM that was on the Finale Forums. >>> >>> Broadway Copyist Handwritten Music Notation Font. Finale 2010 >>> includes the new Broadway Copyist music notation font, created by >>> Robert Piechaud, designer of the esteemed November and Medieval >>> music fonts. Inspired by the golden era of handwritten Broadway >>> scores, the Broadway Copyist font offers a lighter appearance. >> > > I wonder if they just mean "lighter" as in "less bold than the > JazzFont" which might be okay, and easier-to-read text fonts in an > inkpen style. That would be a winner for me. I am seriously thinking > of designing my own font family that would be along the lines of Bill > Duncan's chord font, but in an inkpen style. I would really like an > inkpen-type font that looks like the different sizes of characters > are drawn with the same pen, instead of bigger characters looking > like they were drawn with a thicker pen. I may not know what kind of > can of worms I am opening, but... > > >> Having played quite a few of those "golden age" Broadway books, all >> I can say is that this is not necessarily the recommendation that >> MM marketing seems to think it is! >> > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
