Music Enhanced Text Fonts
Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 12:21 pm
People who write text around music, or about music, often need fonts with just a few music symbols to be inserted in the text. And yet very few fonts actually have them.
So we've defined a 'Level 1 Music Enhanced Text Font' as one which contains the symbols:
U+00B0 ° - degree sign for diminished chord names
U+0394 Δ - Greek capital delta for major 7th chord names
U+203F ‿ - undertie for word elision in lyric lines
U+266D ♭ - musical flat sign for note, chord, and key names
U+266E ♮ - musical natural sign for note, chord, and key names
U+266F ♯ - musical sharp sign for note, chord, and key names
and a 'Level 2 Music Enhanced Text Font' as one which contains a few more in the Unicode private use area.
(See http://www.mozart.co.uk/information/fon ... -fonts.htm for a full spec.)
These symbols let you write 'Sonata in F♯ minor', 'B♭ clarinet' etc in a consistent style (ie without glyphs substituted from other fonts - which probably don't get the bearings right anyway).
Now that nice Mr Google has supplied lots of fonts, with a licence to edit them and produced 'derived versions'. So I've had my trusty Font Creator out, and have been doing just that, adding the appropriate music symbols.
Examples of the work so far are at:
http://www.mozart.co.uk/downloads/fonts ... d-text.htm
(They're free to download.)
Comments and constructive criticism welcome!
Dave
David Webber
Mozart Music Software
So we've defined a 'Level 1 Music Enhanced Text Font' as one which contains the symbols:
U+00B0 ° - degree sign for diminished chord names
U+0394 Δ - Greek capital delta for major 7th chord names
U+203F ‿ - undertie for word elision in lyric lines
U+266D ♭ - musical flat sign for note, chord, and key names
U+266E ♮ - musical natural sign for note, chord, and key names
U+266F ♯ - musical sharp sign for note, chord, and key names
and a 'Level 2 Music Enhanced Text Font' as one which contains a few more in the Unicode private use area.
(See http://www.mozart.co.uk/information/fon ... -fonts.htm for a full spec.)
These symbols let you write 'Sonata in F♯ minor', 'B♭ clarinet' etc in a consistent style (ie without glyphs substituted from other fonts - which probably don't get the bearings right anyway).
Now that nice Mr Google has supplied lots of fonts, with a licence to edit them and produced 'derived versions'. So I've had my trusty Font Creator out, and have been doing just that, adding the appropriate music symbols.
Examples of the work so far are at:
http://www.mozart.co.uk/downloads/fonts ... d-text.htm
(They're free to download.)
Comments and constructive criticism welcome!
Dave
David Webber
Mozart Music Software