Hi Shane,
I note very briefly that regarding the design of the Cadence font by Abraham Leigh he gives this reason:
In Cadence, I took the liberty of adjusting a few of the glyphs to suit
my tastes better. For example, the Emmentaler treble clef is just a
little too stylized for me, almost like it was intended to be a
"hand-written" glyph. Nothing wrong with hand-written, but not very
representative of hand-engraven.
https://sites.google.com/site/tisimst/Home/cadenceThe Cadence font is intended to reproduce more of an hand punched in metal engraving look than Emmenmtaler, even though the latter is base don that concept as well. Cadence extends the details.