Hi, Ben! On Sun, Jul 8, 2018 at 11:38 AM Ben <soundsfromso...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone, > > I was wondering if I could get some feedback and opinions on something > that's been on my mind today. I've been working for a while now on a small > set of chamber pieces (score & parts = letter-size) and my eyes are playing > tricks on me I think... > > Question: what are you all using for your markup font sizes for expressive > and technique texts in your scores? For instance, pizz, simile, sempre, etc. > > Are you using \italic? \abs-fontsize or \fontsize? \teeny? > > As I prepare to work on more large scale works (11x17 score, letter > parts), I've been reconsidering my style sheet and markup size choices, so > I was curious what you all do in your projects. Do you scale them all up > or...my eyes are wonky, the more I stare at the page the more I have no > idea what I'm thinking. ;) > > Thanks for any feedback! Hope you're having a great weekend. > My personal preference, based on my own typographic observation and testing, is that the eye is used to seeing and recognizing symbols that are around a staff-space tall (like note heads). Thus, I tend to make all text sized such that they have an x-height of approximately one staff-space (or maybe a little bit less and rarely more). Since every font is designed and configured differently, there’s not a single font size that works for any font choice. This is important for lyrics especially, but other kinds of markup text like technique and expression text can really benefit from it. Keeping the text around this size makes it work at almost all global staff sizes. Hope that helps, Abraham
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