On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Noeck <noeck.marb...@gmx.de> wrote:
Hi Urs,
it seems like I missed something. How did you create those scores?
...
What is the Cadence font?
Joram,
I can answer for Urs. ...
The Cadence font was the first result of that effort.
Hi Abraham,
thanks! Now I know what I was missing. That's very interesting.
I would like to give some feedback which is clearly very subjective
and
perhaps your work continued such that some characteristics are
obsolete.
Anyway, here it is:
I understand the reasoning with the rounded outlines, but I think not
all shortcomings of the traditional technique need to be copied.
I like the treble clef (the roundings are ok, but more for the
straighter downward line). For the bass clef I am not sure which on I
like more.
The inner roundings of accents looks a bit like overdoing to me. The
same for the dash of the forte f. I would say a balanced mixture of
rounded and sharp corners is a valid choice, too.
The arpeggio looks smoother.
Concerning the accidentals, I am undecided. It looks a bit more
'natural' like traditional notation, but also a bit less perfect...
This
is most visible for the sharp. I prefer the Feta versions of the
natural
and flat signs. The former because it is narrower and the latter
because
it has a more consistent line width.
That's perhaps an issue with the font-switching, but the noteheads of
the Candence font are larger than the staff space and thus visible
below
and above staff lines and overlaps with the stems.
All in all a smaller rounding radius might me a better compromise in
my
opinion. The treble clef is the biggest improvement in my eyes. As you
said you can't please everybody. I enjoy your work and I am looking
forward to the font switching feature.
Cheers,
Joram
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Joram,
Thank you for your thoughts and comments. I can't say that any design
choice I made was the "right" one. The main thing that motivated my
decisions was that I wanted a classic printed look on modern printing
technology. With laser printers, things can look so crisp, which is
very useful, but not quite the look I was going for. Am I the only one
who likes this look? Maybe. When I show a printed piece that was
engraved using Cadence to musicians, I have had overwhelmingly positive
feedback about how good it looks relative to classically engraved
scores, compared to other computer engraved scores. LilyPond is surely
partly to blame for this :), but they like how it doesn't look like it
was done on a computer.
Anyhow, it is what it is. I have made some design changes since that
topic thread, but going beyond Cadence, I also wanted to make other
fonts available to LilyPond users because I have had so much fun with
them. When I do so, I hope you will too!
Regards,
Abraham
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