Close or not close. I'm the major audience, so all that matters is do I like it! That said, I'm a 'serif' kinda guy, so I'd have to agree to disagree about Helvetica ;)
On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 8:36 PM David Rogers <davidandrewrog...@gmail.com> wrote: > "Hugh S. Myers" <hsmy...@gmail.com> writes: > > > I've been working on a very small piece of LaTex (with musixtex) > > code > > to create scale tablature. I'm using a clef based on fracture > > gothic > > but in comparison, it is a little heavy for my taste and I'd > > like to > > either duplicate the Lilypond TAB clef or similar. Hence my > > question. > > If it is based on a font, which one? If not I'll continue to > > examine > > similar fonts in my collection. I've no idea what you mean by > > 'the > > real question', but this is pretty much it… > > Do you need a real duplicate, or just close? > > The general style of font you’d be looking for is a chancery > italic, for example TeX Gyre Chorus or something along those > lines. IMO that style - I just mean the idea of using > vertically-set all-caps chancery italic, I’m not blaming any > certain font - is ugly as can be, but it IS what seems to get used > most of the time and therefore what people have come to expect. If > I had my own choice to make it look better, I’d pick a very boring > bold sans-serif like bold Helvetica or whatever, but that’s not > what people are used to. > > -- > David Rogers >
