Fonts

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Kallisti Press Font Suggestions
Early Music Fonts
Tablature Fonts
Fonts for New Notation
Figured Bass Fonts
Jazz Fonts

Note: Suggestions on this page were taken from comments on the Finale Listserv Mailing List.

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KALLISTI PRESS FONT SUGGESTIONS

There is no fixed typographical standard for text fonts. Andrew Stiller of Kallisti Music Press uses the following (with exceptions causa pulchritudinis). All font sizes assume a page reduction of 80%:

Title: Times 42 on title page, Times 24 or TimesBold 24 for caption title

Subtitle: Times 32/18 respectively, or use a fancy display font, especially for new music

Copyright: Helvetica 9

Main tempo headings: TimesBold 14

Tempo modifications (such as pi`u mosso): TimesItalic 14

Playing instructions (marcato, diminuendo, etc.): TimesItalic 12

Procedural instructions (divisi, solo, etc.): Times 12

Measure numbers: Helvetica 10

Staff names: Times 12 (actually, MetTimes 12, wh. looks the same but has a flat sign in it)

Tuplets: TimesItalic 10

Fingering: Petrucci 24

EARLY MUSIC FONTS

Medieval music fonts:

Cassady & Greene, Inc.
22734 Portola Drive
Salinas, CA 93908-1119

TABLATURE FONTS

Passport's "Anastasia" font.

"Frets A, B, and C" fonts.(fretboard symbols).

Italian Lute tablature:

Blake Hodgetts has created a tiny font which replaces the numerals 1-9 with the letters a-i, and is taken from the Zapf Chancery font (a common, decorative italic face).
BHodgetts@symantec.com

FONTS FOR NEW NOTATION

Toccatta and Fughetta fonts at http://www.efnorg/~bch/AboutFonts.html

FIGURED BASS FONTS

Rameau (CodaMusic) has struck-through numbers and symbols for major and minor chords in the "Nashville Number" system.

JAZZ FONTS

GoldenAge makes several type faces specifically designed for Finale in Type 1 & Truetype, Mostly for jazz ornaments, repeat sign brackets, and other handwritten-looking things to make jazz charts look like "real books".

MISCELLANEOUS TYPES OF FONTS

Harp pedal marks:

Golden Age Music font, which handles the pedals similarly to Crescendo.

Fonts for Musicals:

GOLDEN AGE fonts