Bravura, the new music font designed by the Sibelius team now working under the Steinberg baqnner
I think we should be aware of what is happening with this.
http://blog.steinberg.net/2013/05/introducing-bravura-music-font/
It may impact our own thoughts on Music Font design??
And on finishing reading the article it seems it is to be released under the OPen font licence:-
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=OFL
Comments
And it is interesting indeed. They took a stance!
I could not get the sample PDF to display correctly, so I can only see the PNG and the comparisons in the post. I like the boldness (and I would like to see the effect in a whole page), but I'm not sure about the generic late-XIX c. look; the natural with its 'counter-tapered' horizontal segments is curious... And, of course, the OFL license is a nice step!
We'll see...
M.
In reply to We should indeed! by Miwarre
I took the trouble to download the font yesterday and look at it in the Character Map.
There are still an awful lot of symbols missing, but it looks good enough to just do basic notation with.
I shall definitely be keeping my eye on it.
The only problem is that the glyph mapping is not the same as Emmentaler - would that affect it's use in MuseScore?
In reply to I took the trouble to by ChurchOrganist
Werner and I are keeping an eye on the SMuLF mailing list and the website. We might take a closer look to the font in the next weeks and see how we can include Bravura in MuseScore in addition to Emmentaler and Gonville.