Re: Microtone accidentals

[Maximilian Albert]

Hi Victor,

sorry for this late reply - I was away over the weekend and got stuck in 
work once more.

> I printed out your 20pt example sheet in a standard laser printer at
> 1200dpi.

Thanks for your feedback and your help in trying to assess these glyphs!

> However, if you allow me to be ultra picky, [...]

Sure. :)

> I might suggest stretching the arrows slightly (maybe an extra 50%),
> keeping the width as it is.

The same thought had crossed my mind, and I did indeed play with taller 
(and sometimes wider) versions. It turned out that making them taller 
(while keeping the width) makes them look rather awkward. On the other 
hand, increasing both width and height makes them look unproportionally 
big compared to the accidentals themselves, which gives a really ugly 
impression.

Also, in playing with these parameters I found it difficult to decide 
whether the arrowtip should be covered by the staffline or if it should 
protrude through it (and in this case how far). For I got the impression 
that if the arrowtips of arrows that fall into spaces are not clearly 
discernible (because they are covered by the staffline or protrude too 
little), the corresponding arrowheads appear a bit larger than the other 
ones (probably caused by the additional blackness of the staffline), 
which gives an uneven overall impression. But this may be remediable by 
a careful design. If you or anyone else has any suggestions in this 
direction, I could try again to produce something reasonably-looking 
(although honestly I doubt that I would succeed, and I almost certainly 
won't get around to it during the next two weeks, I'm afraid :( ).

Best,
Max