I’m in London for a week so am just catching up on this thread. Obviously it’s your design so you can design the glyphs however you want, but typically the chord accidentals and other accidentals for use with text will have shorter stems on the flats, more open counters, etc. From the SMuFL Standard Accidentals for Chord Symbols implementation notes:
Thanks for the info. To be honest I was just following my nose (as the Dutch say). I hoped there is somebody with knowledge of fonts can make nice glyphs for sans serif chord symbols, but then I discovered how easy you can give it a try, so that it is. So far I like it, but for sure I’m biased. It looks cleaner to me.
Biggest issue for me is readability, with bad light and older eyes. For sure I will give it another try with SMuFL recommendations.
It really is a very exiting world, people can make a very decent living of it (my brother in law was a famous fontdesigner, that is why I mainly use his fonts) and you can loose yourself completely in it! The most amazing I can think of are the (former) punch-cutters, they were able to cut the punches of the smallest fonts (8pt and below) in the very hard metal of the punches, I still do not understand how that was possible
And yes the most “futile” details matter enormous if you are talking about legibility!
Hi there!
I’m working on a method where we have all the notenames in a Sans Serif font. It would be really helpful to use this font for the notenames to be able to input them in the lyrics popover for instance. Can I purchase it anywhere?
Thank you!
Hanneke
