I'd second this. Bill's articulations font (plus all his other great
fonts, like rehearsal and enclosure) and Maestro font make for clear,
professional looking charts. I used to think the Jazz font was great.
Hell, I bought it before it was bundled with Finale (like, 1995ish?). I
even bought and used the Swing font (by the same author of the jazz
font), but left all those in favor of clear, professional looking
charts/sheets/scores.
Chuck Israels wrote:
Dear Jef,
I use Maestro combined with Bill Duncan's chord font (that I find to
be beautiful, clear, and relatively compact in relation to its
readability) and a few of his other special fonts for rehearsal
letters and articulations. While there are some who like the Finale
Jazz font, I find it unpleasant (I'm speaking in my courteous web
voice - ask me what I really think!) and the idea of a fake
handwritten font for computers simply doesn't work for me. Ash Music
has a better one, but I end up coming down on the side of a font that
looks like printing and using other elements of the graphic
communication to convey the spirit of my music. Just an opinion from
one who appreciates good graphic design and good music engraving and
who is for sure a product of the jazz world.
Chuck
On Oct 17, 2006, at 4:21 PM, shirling & neueweise wrote:
does anyone have examples of the various fonts used for jazz, ideally
this would be the same sheet of music in X versions, corresponding to
X fonts. i'm interested in the music and text fonts, and not just
the ones bundled with finale.
cheers,
jef
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