Hello everyone, I design my own musical symbols for playing instructions. However, these appear black in the panel. How can I improve this?
I don’t think you can at the moment.
Jesper
No, indeed you cannot. You might find that setting Dorico to use the light theme rather than the dark theme makes it easier to see these images.
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I understand. I would be delighted if this were possible in a future update. For my eyes, the light coloured theme is out of the question. Thank you and have a nice day, Michael
I had asked this question once before and Daniel explained that it would be practically impossible to implement an engine that converts every black glyph to white for display purpose only.
Would it be possible to make the glyph display area white regardless of light/dark system-view mode, or do OSs lock that down?
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michele, thanks for your repley. one of the reasons for switching to dorico was and is the beauty of the GUI. It is incomprehensible that this should not be possible: the internal glyphs are displayed correctly.
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However, your symbol is not a glyph, @ZIFFELS, it’s an SVG or a graphic in another format, and the data doesn’t come from a font. We would have to jump through significant hoops to render the SVG or bitmap data in colours other than those specified in the image.
I’ve been wondering, if one could create a custom font with these custom symbols as glyphs, would those work?
I tested this, and it does work. Here is a simple line using an arrow symbol for @dan_kreider’s musglyphs -font:
Dan, what software did you use to create musglyphs? Would I be able to create a font (on macOS) with my own custom glyphs?
Perhaps it would be a good way to share a set of custom made symbols - easily imported by anyone interested. These could then be used to create custom lines and playing techniques in Dorico.
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Yes, I use SVG. I would also convert it to a font. That seems like a good solution to me. Does anyone have a recommendation for a programme under Mac OS? Thank you very much.
The best free font editor is probably FontForge. The two leading commercial apps for font editing are FontLab and Glyphs.
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I used Font Creator on PC and found it very user-friendly. Now that I’ve switched to Mac, I’m a bit adrift. I’ve tried Glyphs but am finding it much harder to use (even with tutorials).
@SampoKasurinen yes I’m sure you could do this quite easily. A line font for music notation would be great.
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