I like just about every font mentioned and find it difficult to choose which to use any given moment. I’m kind of love right now with NorFonts’ two vintage fonts (Vintage BH and Vintage Plate). I just love that it makes things look like it’s an old published printing of some kind and it kind of takes away the feeling that was made on the computer. Hard to explain.
That being said, I’ve also come to realize that some of the things I like or dislike between the various fonts has as much or more to do with the engraver settings that are loaded in with the font from the json file, all of which is fully overridable, I mean I could just use bravura and change some of the engraver settings to match what Nordine did for the Vintage BH json and I might just like it almost as much! In other words am I in love with his actual fonts or the engraver settings he used to enhance the vintage vibe? I don’t know the answer to that.
I know this sounds weird but when I use those vintage fonts, it puts me in a different mood as I’m composing and looking at the music, my early classical training looked at that kind of stuff for many hours at a time over years and it just brings back certain feelings…which I feel affects my mood and creativity. if I were actually publishing my work, which I’m not…but if I were…I don’t know for sure what I would use. Honestly I see nearly every music font and say to myself, yea I like that one too…there’s only a few I don’t really like, Finale Engraver for one. Probably done with Petrucci I should say, just saw it too many times back in the early Finale days and associate it with “it came from the computer”
But if I were producing something like a working score for an orch recording session or something like that, my emphasis would be on readability and clarity and probably I would just use tried and true bravura most likely.