Emulating 'JazzCord' font with Dorico 6

Hi,

I was trying to replicate the JazzCord chord symbols in Dorico 6 since we can now customize any chord we want, but I couldn’t seem to get the Lydian (Lyd.) and Phrygian (Phryg.) chord symbols to look like in the JazzCord font highlighted below:

Now, when I try to Promote Overridden Chord Symbol Appearance like below:

I get this:

The chord symbol I try to enter is : C Phryg. and C Lyd.

Maybe @FredGUnn could solve this as usual! :grinning_face:

Thanks a lot for your help.

I’ve played around with this a bit, but I don’t think the new editor fully supports editing modal chord symbols. I’m not quite sure about that yet. You can define a different popover command though. Here I’ve defined C whatever to be C Phrygian.

You could probably do similarly with JazzCord.

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Thanks @FredGUnn!

I actually prefer that chord font because I used to use it a while back alongside my own jazz fonts. It’s got all the well-arranged chord qualities and tensions. I think Finale Jazz SmufL font also has those JazzCord symbols. Maybe I should re-customize my doricolib file from scratch again… :pensive_face:

I found a quick fix! I selected ‘Modes and scales to lower case’ and now I can use the lowercase range from the JazzCord font.

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