[smufl-discuss] Re: Feedback on jazz font aspects of .8

[Ed Hirschman]

Hi Daniel,

I think your answers make sense for both issues.  I look forward to
someone creating a jazz font based on SMuFL.

Regards,

Ed

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Daniel Spreadbury
<[hidden email]> wrote:

> Ed wrote:
>
>> The names listed on page 134 all have the prefix "Brass".  Would
>> suggest to change/generalize that to "Jazz" as these techniques are
>> also used for saxes which are woodwinds.
>
> I understand the motivation for requesting this change, but I don't think
> this is crucial: to be absolutely correct about it I think it would
> require the creation of a new range of glyphs for jazz techniques common
> to both brass and woodwind instruments, which I'm disinclined to do unless
> there is a lot of demand from the community.
>
>> Not sure if this is the right place, but the jazz turn on page 135
>> looks just like the classical one, so would suggest something
>> non-classical looking for appearance in the spec and in the Bravura
>> font itself.
>
> The challenge here is that Bravura is intended to be a traditional
> "engraved" font, i.e. based on metal punches rather than handwriting. So I
> opted for an engraved appearance for Bravura, in keeping with the rest of
> the font.
>
> Daniel
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