I stylize my projects depending on what’s needed. When I need a crisp, small, and readable glyphs, I reach for MTF-Scorlatti for my full scores.
When I want something more specific, especially if I’m going for something “timeless” like old B&H scores, I reach for something in @NorFonts 's catalogue of fonts. I really like the new Vintage BH fonts, which remind me of the old Brahms chamber engravings.
In fact I’ve really enjoyed using his copy of Graphira, which as far as look and feel is stupendous and looks really nice with chamber music and solo piano music.
I did some copy work with solo viola music recently, and I used Mezzo for that, because at extra large pt sizes it really shines and has that Sturdy quality. I should try transcribing Bach cello suites with that font!
I used Da Capo for some piano music and it looks really nice! It reminds me of Schott!
Really, now that we’ve had widespread adoption of SMuFL, it’s an embarrassment of riches!
The last thing I want a font for is that old “Soviet” Style of scores like what’s found in the Shostakovich editions. I got somewhere with it a number of years ago, but I haven’t tried picking it up since.
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This is something that I just fell into again, after having lived with my Dorico set up for awhile.
In Finale and Sibelius, I had modified my fonts, symbols, and line thicknesses to a crazy degree; however, with Dorico I more or less have been content with Bravura and the settings I put in place when I picked it up. In the areas where it drives me insane, I have just let it slide as I’m the only person suffering.
Now that I feel compelled to augment the areas I feel my previous layouts excelled in, where do you all feel is the best area to make these adjustments within Dorico: the base glyph’s and fonts themselves or within Dorico’s note library? What’s the most streamlined way to mix in match at this point?
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For example, Bravura gets me pretty much 90% of what I’m looking for, especially for session work and sight reading: legibility at a distance is paramount; however for brevity’s sake, the large notehead bleeds into the space above a little too much for chordal music, but the default size is not as pleasant as Finale’s SMuFL Maestro addition. With my layout, it ends up being a nice inbetween.
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Some clefs in Bravua do not look as nice as some other options, so I’d happily take a week or so mix and matching something that ends up coherent.
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While I had modified many of these within Finale, those adjustments arent usable in Dorico. One such area is how I like the shape of maestro font’s 8th note rest, but I find the actual stem/slash portion to be too thin. I feel I can modify either to end up in a happy zone, but I’m not sure where the most reliable place to do this is. I know there is the notehead library, but I do not see a place where I could swap out and modify rests.
I probably could import some of my previous glyphs, but when I tried to do that in previous versions of Dorico, it ended up breaking UI elements and behaving weird, so I just stuck with Bravura.
Most things can be modified in the Music Symbols editor, with the exception of Noteheads (which have their own editor); and Accidentals, which are edited in the Tonality Editor.
Do you mean “make your own font”? It’s what I did. 
Effectively, yes, haha. I suspect for my use case, I would be able to just modify or swap out certain glyphs, but yes.
I recently switched my font from Bravura to Scherzo. Something about Scherzo caught my eye. I can’t really say exactly what it was. I just find my scores a lot less “heavy”-looking and a lot more visually pleasing since moving to Scherzo. I did have to defend my purchase to my wife, however. She couldn’t believe I’d spent so much money on something so frivolous as a font. Rave as she did, though, I stood by my decision - it was worth it.
Just plonking down my $0.02 here. Sorry, couldn’t resist.
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@leejackson
Thanks for using one of my NorFonts. Maybe she hate my works 
—JK
p.s: If I knew about that, I could give you the font for free
Let me tell you that during the covid period my wife got mad (too) seeing me spending many hours making so many text and music fonts, she couldn’t believe that I’ve started my font projects years ago (back in 2002 or so) and all my projects were half-finished since then. And what? all those projects were stored in a little USB Flash drive of 512Mb which I kept safe till now like a jewellery.
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I would take you up on that in retrospect, but I’d feel bad about accepting a refund - I’ve already used it to help establish a brand for myself, as it were. Besides, I don’t think my wife hates your font at all - far from it. She just hates the fact that I spent money, period. 
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