Re: LilyPond Feta font - natural design

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Janek Warchoł <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> in commit ce521e79fd7669b45c8c1132e4b5693a03b5d90a you wrote "The
> stems of the natural are brushed (at least, in Barenreiter SCS )".  Do
> you have some scans showing this?  And maybe some scans showing your
> inspiration for flats?

I've put a scan I had lying around of Barenreiter SCS (It's the 1956
edition of the Solo Cello Suites by Bach from Baerenreiter).

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5fi7waIFeX7cjBvbTZWNFJfLXM/edit?usp=sharing

> I'd like to know what you intended to mimic when designing the font -
> i'm not satisfied with how the accidentals look in print now, and
> maybe i could do something to improve this.  Currently if you print in
> 600 dpi (that surely is not professional resolution, but it's quite
> decent) the accidentals look really bad - flats have visibly jagged
> stems, and naturals are distorted (it's actually visible with a naked
> eye).

At the time we designed this, we were not using scalable fonts, so
there was an option to tweak the bitmap fonts to adapt to the
limitations of the printer. Now that things are using scalable fonts,
the correct approach is to figure out how to add hinting to the fonts
so the stems are not brushed on 600 dpi and coarser printers.

(I hope you're not suggesting to remove the brushing.)

>
> best,
> Janek



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