But tell us, how do you REALLY feel? :-)
David H. Bailey
Darcy James Argue wrote:
I remain stunned that people think these Express Music fonts are any good at all. Lord knows I have as many issues with JazzFont as anyone, but I know how to work around it to get what I want. On the other hand, all three Express Music fonts look like complete ass to me, even by the bottom-of-the-barrel standards of manuscript-look music fonts. None of them would be even remotely acceptable for any of my clients who want a manuscript look. The quarter rests in Ash Music look like rips, for god's sake! The dynamics in LeeMusic are the absolute worst I have ever seen. All of their text fonts are even less legible than JazzText, which really takes some doing. And as Chris points out, none of these fonts have the heaviness of JazzFont, so you have the inherent cheesiness of using a handwritten-type music font but none of the increased clarity and legibility that JazzFont gives you (or can give you, if used right).
I don't understand why someone doesn't just pick up a copy of Clinton Roemer's The Art of Music Copying, and make a music and text font set based on that. That's how it ought to look -- it's all right there, in the book, just do it like that. But invariably, whenever someone attempts a manuscript-style music font, it turns out to be a complete embarrassment. Like democracy, JazzFont is the worst of the lot -- except for all the others.
- Darcy
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On 24 Jun, 2004, at 11:17 AM, Christopher BJ Smith wrote:
At 7:07 AM -0700 6/24/04, Rob Deemer wrote:
Apologies to touch on something that's a couple of weeks old - I just got back from some
time in Chicago without e-mail.
Some had been talking about some of the "jazz" fonts such as Jazz and Swing...I wanted to
let you know about three others which I feel are much better. At the Express Music
Website (http://shop.store.yahoo.com/expressmusic/index.html) you can check out three
different fonts - LeeMusic, AshMusic and RussMusic. All three are hand-drawn fonts
created by professional copyists and turned into fonts (which luckily work nicely with
2004 and OSX). I use AshMusic myself, but any of them beat the pants off of JazzFont.
Thanks for the tip. I had seen these fonts before, and didn't like them, as they are not as bold as the JazzFont, and some of the glyphs (flats, naturals, clefs, segno, gliss lines, to name a few) are way too stylised for my taste. Some of the text looks nice, though some letters again are too stylised, which what I don't like about the JazzText font.
They are certainly alternatives, though!
I'd really like a nice compact Speedball type font, like I see in the Clinton Roemer book, for text and chord symbols. I've settled on Dom Regular, but even that tends to be a little too spread, and I don't get those great enclosures that the JazzText font has for expressions.
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