Re: font survey: which clef do you prefer?

[Hans Aberg]

On 7 Jul 2011, at 10:16, Janek Warchoł wrote:

>>>> Examples from Edition Peters (Bach) and Schirmer (Muczynski) have the top 
>>>> tip and the lowest crossing aligned pretty much vertically. A book by 
>>>> Hindemith, though smaller in type, typeset by Scott, has slanting to the 
>>>> left. So there is some variation.
>>> 
>>> Of course. I'd even say that there's a lot of variation!
>> 
>> Anyway, in large type, I preferred those more straight up. The one to the 
>> right looked rather straight up, but not as much as in those examples.
> 
> I guess our G-clef is curved partly to distinguish itself from other
> software' clefs.  Default Finale clef has very straight vertical line
> for example.

At another place in Edition Peters, there is a slant to the right - these are 
hand drawn, I think.

Hans