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Is anyone bothered by some of the idiosynchrasies of the music typeface (maybe it's just me)? The :n4 in the time signature being too low; :3r being slightly too low; :n looking a bit "crooked"; and especially the weird looking connection of the upstem flags with the note head ... I'm gene...

BTW: The typography community in Germany is enjoying the journal as well.
https://www.typografie.info/3/topic/305 ... ent=270260

Thanks for posting it.

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Oh, that's brilliant, benwiggy; thanks for sharing ...
Same problem here with the login (latest Firefox, Windows 10): Notatio doesn't remember me, I have to log in after closing Firefox. I haven't changed my settings; and Notatio is the only website that behaves that way.

@ Giangi: MS Word's use of ligatures, alternate sets etc. is somewhat limited (and occasionally unpredictable). You might want to try Libre Office whose support of advanced typographic features is more advanced (which is remarkable given the fact that the program is free). Maybe the font works bette...

... Unfortunately, I can't find it now in the English version, but I remember reading it a while ago. ... The quote is on page 32 in the English edition: “Do not use these clefs to replace genuine octave transpositions (Britten used them in his late scores, especially for piano and harp). The clefs...

Just a thought: Might it be an option to dinstinguish different kinds of licence, the way that type designers offer a different licence depending, for example, on the number of working stations a font will be installed on, or the kind of job the font will be used for (private vs. commercial)? So the...

Luc de Groot (one the best type designers around) has a whole theory of how interpolation works: https://www.lucasfonts.com/learn/interpolation-theory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I75Efo7whrs The following page has a nice visual aid to demonstrate how the outlines of a particular font change depe...

The problem is that the Peters font isn't really a 'font' that can be identified. In the second half of the 19th century (the time music engraving was molded into the shape that we recognize today as 'modern'), every type foundry had their own (but almost identical) version of a 'normal' typeface fo...

John, I didn't mean to suggest that "period convention" trumps the individual genius of Beethoven. However, his unique way of composing (and notating) music can still be interpreted only within the context of his time. And with regard to the "missing" staccato dot on the first no...