A font from a obsolete notation program

dah-hisa · Post by **dah-hisa** » 05 Jun 2016, 16:11

Hello everyone, my user name is dah-hisa or call me just Daichi.
I am a japanese musician from germany. (It is really so.xD)

Recently, I was working on it to reconstruct a music font,
that is used on a obsolete program "Scan-Note".

I think it is old-fashioned but still very nice and somehow beautiful.

I would love hear your opinions and know if you have informations about this program.
Despite my not-enough language levels, I am looking forward to your responses!;)

Used program for this example: MacBook Pro, OSX 10.11 and Finale 2014.5
Font edited by Fontographer 5

Best regards

Variation Example.jpg

tisimst · Post by **tisimst** » 05 Jun 2016, 16:54

It's not a bad design. Do you have the entire font? I've never heard of the program...

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dah-hisa · Post by **dah-hisa** » 05 Jun 2016, 17:05

Hi, tisimst
Thank you for your reply.
I tried to collect all symbols but the program was used around 1980 until 1990...,
and I changed/redesigned though some characters. (C-Clef, noteheads and so on)

I could you send a character list, if you want.

This program was first designed by a dane
and then developed by one of the biggest japanese printing offices as "New Toppan Scan-Note".

tisimst · Post by **tisimst** » 05 Jun 2016, 17:55

dah-hisa wrote:Hi, tisimst
Thank you for your reply.
I tried to collect all symbols but the program was used around 1980 until 1990...,
and I changed/redesigned though some characters. (C-Clef, noteheads and so on)

I could you send a character list, if you want.

This program was first designed by a dane
and then developed by one of the biggest japanese printing offices as "New Toppan Scan-Note".

So, what did you use for a reference?

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dah-hisa · Post by **dah-hisa** » 05 Jun 2016, 18:05

Some Notes (the biggest example is Divertimenti and Serenades for Woodwind vol. 1 (Neue Mozart-Ausgabe)), and
on the link, you can see some informations and examples from different programs.

http://www.ccarh.org/publications/cm/vol/3/cm03.pdf

DatOrganistTho · Post by **DatOrganistTho** » 06 Jun 2016, 01:29

This is a fabulous font. I love the balance of it: one of the first I've liked with the perpendicular center line on the G clef! Well done!

I know @tisimst would love to convert it over the LilyPond

tisimst · Post by **tisimst** » 06 Jun 2016, 02:17

DatOrganistTho wrote:I know @tisimst would love to convert it over the LilyPond

That could be arranged if anyone wanted to sponsor the effort... [emoji6] I admit that I'm kind of swamped at the moment, but this could be an interesting project in the future.

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dah-hisa · Post by **dah-hisa** » 06 Jun 2016, 03:04

Good morning, DatOrganistTho

Thank you for your compliment.

DatOrganistTho wrote:This is a fabulous font. I love the balance of it: one of the first I've liked with the perpendicular center line on the G clef! Well done!

Yes, I love this G-Clef too!! That is a reason, why I wanted have this Font.

I think that its "mf" and "mp" are also characteristic.

I've never used Lily Pond, therefore I don't know, but doesn't this font for finale work direct on this program?

tisimst · Post by **tisimst** » 22 Jun 2016, 22:01

dah-hisa wrote:I've never used Lily Pond, therefore I don't know, but doesn't this font for finale work direct on this program?

If, by "this program", you are referring to LilyPond, then the answer is no, it doesn't. It uses its own custom encoding that is completely different from Finale's, so there's no inherent cross-compatibility. There are work-arounds, but that's a different discussion.

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