I agree. I really love the clarity of Bill's fonts. Since discovering
them I haven't used Jazz Font at all...
On 1/7/10 1:15 PM, Chuck Israels wrote:
And the one characteristic all imitation hand written fonts share -
that each symbol looks identical every time it appears, and this makes
everything look wrong to a reader who is lead to expect normal human
variation. These fonts invariably look distracting to my eye, and I
fail to see the point of them. Good handwriting can be attractive,
efficient and even beautiful, but a computer imitating handwriting
produces a disturbing "visual dichotomy." I am grateful that Bill
Duncan took the time to meet with Greg Hamilton and me, and to consult
with Darcy and come up with a set of articulation symbols that allow
jazz charts to be done in Maestro without resorting to combining
Maestro with the clunky Jazz Font scoops and fall-offs. And his
ChordSymbol and ChordSuffix fonts aren't too shabby either - not only
for chords, but fbut the slashes and rhythmic notation too.
Chuck
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