I think we ought to use Comic Sans.  That will attract a different populace
than we're used to seeing.

In all seriousness, though, I like the idea of the neume as an accent.  I
was recently reminded of how beautiful our Gregorian scores are.  They have
true artistic beauty (usually), beyond the beauty that we all see in
well-balanced musical notation.

~Conor Cook

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Br. Samuel Springuel <[email protected]
> wrote:

> Sorry for being slow to respond.
>
> On 2015-05-23 4:30 PM, Richard Chonak wrote:
>
>> To have so much text in a "decorative" font is not user-friendly.
>>
>
> I'm not disagreeing with you, I just think that what you've done may have
> gone too far in the other direction.  Looking at it again, I'm inclined to
> leave the menu items as you have them.  Since these are important
> navigational items, clarity is more important than style.
>
> That leaves the headers.  I'd like to see a bit more style here.  Not so
> much that they can't be read, but something that provides a bit more
> character.  After playing around with font choices on my own computer, I
> can't say that I can come up with something that's better than what you
> have.  So perhaps the answer isn't to change the font, but to add a
> bullet-like image before or after the text.  Perhaps the image of a neume.
> Ideally it shouldn't be one of too great complexity, as that would be
> distracting, but it should probably involve 2 or 3 notes. Quickly glancing
> at the list of neumes in the documentation suggests a Torculus Ascendens in
> the gregorio font might meet this definition.
>
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