Vintage BH: New SMuFL Fonts

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Hi,

This is my latest engraver font design: “Vintage BH”, a vintage SMuFL font coming in 3 weight, Light (Vintage BH Light), Standard (Vintage BH), and Heavy (Vintage BH STD).

PDF samples:

Website: Vintage BH (SMUFL) Fonts – NorFonts.ma

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What are the text fonts used here? Is it just bravura text?

The music font looks very nice!

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@SampoKasurinen

I already mentioned the text font I prefer to use with Vintage BH fonts on my website, see below:

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The text font is just Old Music Standard.

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Bravura Text is just Bravura music symbols, for use in text.

You’ll already have Nepomuk installed, which is similar to Old Music Standard; both are designed to evoke the style of the type punches used on plate engraving.

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Ben, does Nepomuk comes bundled with D5? How I missed that :smiley:

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Yes: Sebastian, Nepomuk and Golden Age; also most of the Finale SMuFL fonts and their text pairings.

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i really love this font, but does anyone know if there is any possibility of having a treble clef that doesn’t lean over quite as much like an unbalanced xmas tree?

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@Dewdman42 Glad to hear that you like my Vintage BH SMuFL font. Yes indeed, I also was going to release a new version with non-slanted Treble Clef. I will keep you tuned when it’ll be there on my website. Thanks for interest!

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very good to hear! I really do love this font, to be honest it is exactly what I have always wished for a music font to be…giving an old school printed quality to it…which almost makes it looks like was actually typeset and printed before the advent of computers…which personally I really love. Its a great font!

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Love this one, will have to add to my collection of other NorFonts I have :slight_smile:

I have one other thought which is of course subjective, I don’t know why but the ‘tr’ trill sign feels somewhat out of place with the rest… when comparing with the dynamic markings and so on, it almost feels too precise and clean, somewhat more on the generic side - I wonder if it could possess some of the rougher, slightly chunky and quirky appearance of the dynamics? But that’s just me, you and others may disagree but just a thought.

Thanks!

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Hi,

Now Vintage BH fonts feature a non-slanted Treble Clef (set on letter A) that you can access to through Engrave > Music Symbols…

Below a video that explains the process:

Best,
—Nordine.

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Nah, the original is so pretty and stylish. Vintage BH is my favorite of all your fonts.

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@SugarFree I added the non-slanted version because of many requests from my other customers. Glad to hear from you :smiley:

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its not that the slanted one looks bad per say…but its the kind of thing where when every system has the same slanted treble clef it starts to look not great. In an ideal world each use of it would be slightly different I suppose for vintage imperfection look, but I just found it to be too much when its all the time. Thanks for adding the straight one, I haven’t had a chance to try it yet, but I will soon.

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It looks just right to my eyes :wink: The other benefit of a slanted treble clef is that it allows tighter staff spacing in the conductor’s score. The clefs won’t collide as easily. How well a clef stacks vertically is a crucial feature.

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