On Thu Jan 7, at ThursdayJan 7 2:52 PM, [email protected] wrote:
But I'll check out Dom Casual
or other handwritten look options for a follow-on product for
those who
strongly prefer the most casual look.
When you check out Dom Casual, let me fill you in what is nice and
what is bad about it.
Nice:
Speedball-type pen appearance, with rounded tips at the ends of lines.
Approximately (very approximately!) matches the Jazz Font thickness,
when you choose the right point size.
Handcrafted look. This isn't essential, in fact, I would prefer a
nice, neat Speedball type font. The commercial ones are very wide,
though, TOO wide for a compact suffix.
Bad:
Some characters are (again!) too stylised. The lower-case m looks
like it was drawn by a drunk, and it shows up in almost every chord
symbol! 3, 4 and 5 numerals are too slanted.
If you use the letters for the chord name, they are too thick. If you
use the numbers for the extensions, they are too thin. It would be
nice to have a roughly matching set of letters in large and small
size, that look like they were made with the same pen. Make sure you
include lower-case! Don't make the JazzText mistake!
Just like all chord fonts (except Bill Duncan's ChordSuf) the kerning
is never right when you create a new suffix. Dom is too widely spaced.
Missing very important music glyphs, like a proper sharp (taller and
skinnier than a shift-3) and a flat and taller parentheses to go
around stacked extensions. In my Dom Casual suffix set, I imported
those characters from JazzCord and adjusted every #^&*@ character
individually for height and distance. Took me a week, and I still
don't like it.
Christopher
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