Re: Is Lilypond’s G-Clef too straight?

[Silvain Dupertuis]

Interesting!

As for me, the Lylypond orientation of G clef looks actually better balanced that the rotated one.
The rotated version seems to fall on the right instead of staying straigth...

I am not sure to understand all the details of the code,

but I tried to check the angles (using a PDF of the clefs and manipulating it with Inkscape)
The angles I found do not correspond exactly to the values I see in the code :

Second and third clefs are rotated left of angles of

respectively 1.42° and 2.37° (probably correspond to values 1.5 and 2.5 in the code)

measuring here :

Le 12.08.21 à 12:05, lilypond@petzel.at a écrit :

> Lilypond has a very characteristic G-Clef. I’ve only seen a handful of 
> Bärenreiter scores with a similar clef.
>
> I personally find the Lilypond-Clef beautiful, but quite some people find it a 
> bit too characteristic. I think part of this could come from the Clef being 
> very straight. In most editions the G-Clef has a slant forward, so that the 
> right edge is less leaning backward.
>
> So I’ve simply tried to rotate the clef a bit, and I’ve found that with just a 
> slight rotation the clef looks much more like a „standard” G-clef.
>
> So what do you think about this? Could it be that the G-clef of Feta is just 
> slightly too straight?
>
> Cheers,
> Valentin
>

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