Re: Suggestions for a Contemporary Music Font

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On Jul 10, 2011, at 4:34 PM, Bernardo Barros wrote:

I'm thinking of creating a font for contemporary music with the most
commonly used symbols.
I miss a lot of specific symbols and I'm sure a lot of LilyPond users do too.

This is a fantastic idea.

I know that there are some sources for this purpose, and find them very useful.
But most are bloated with not very useful symbols, while very common
things are missing.

I know of Controla, Sonora fonts, for instance
[http://www.music-notation.info/en/fonts/Controla.html]
Both with really useful symbols.

If these are free fonts, I'd recommend finding out what license they're under.  If they're under a flexible license, you could start by tracing a hi-res bitmap in FontForge and tweaking those vector graphics to your heart's content.  The easiest way to get them into LilyPond would be to get them into MetaFont via FontForge.

If anyone wants to contribute, it would be interesting to put this
source in some repository (github or similar),
so more users could all contribute, review, discuss and use the work.

You've likely already covered many of the important bases.  I'm looking forward to seeing, using, and contributing to what you cook up!

Cheers,

MS