Hi Gabriel, > Today, Lukas and I are pleased to share with you a first draft of “modern > custodes.”
Amazing! Big thanks to you and Lukas for bringing this to the ’Pond. > • For now, this custom custos stencil prints a quarter-note head > regardless of the duration of the note that the custos previews. But Lukas > and I propose that in the modern style of custodes, the custos glyph should > give a preview of not only the upcoming pitch but also the rhythm/duration of > the next note.* Agreed. > • In these tests, I (i) reduce Custos.font-size to -4 or -5 and (ii) > manually add parentheses around my custodes. The idea of both overrides is to > reduce the likelihood that singers confuse the custos note heads for notes > that they should actually sing. Should either or both of these options > (smaller font size, parenthesization) be a default for modern custodes? I would always engrave them slightly smaller than the regular notehead size (personal preference around -3, which is slightly larger than shown here), and always with parentheses (personal preference around -3, which is slightly larger than shown here). So I’d want both of these to be default. > Our main question to this list for today: How does the output look to you? Great! > If you (like me) wanted to engrave “modern custodes,” does this style look > like what you would want to engrave? Absolutely. Best, Kieren. __________________________________________________ My work day may look different than your work day. Please do not feel obligated to read or respond to this email outside of your normal working hours.
