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I prefer the bolder style of Finale's Jazz or Sib's InkPen2 fonts. Sib's Reprise is better than InkPen2 for clefs but little else if you;re prepared to mix and match. Also articulations need to be in a much bigger font size. And I use my own modified InkPen style for texts. The delicate style of Opus doesn't work for my failing eyesight. The closer I can get to the professional big hand written style of yesteryear, the better.

Re: note style
Posted by Ole Bollom - 18 Oct 04:11PM

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OK. That's fine, but where can I find the note fonts?

Re: note style
Posted by Adrian Drover - 18 Oct 04:26PM

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I guess you choose a house style. Appearance/HouseStyle/Import, take your pick. If this is available on your version of sib.

Re: note style
Posted by Laurence Payne - 18 Oct 05:24PM

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Yes, if you decide to use Inkpen, don't mess around with just the note appearance, use the whole House Style. The fonts are already on your computer.

Adrian is a fine musician and is entitled to his opinion. But I still think the 'quirky' Styles annoy and irritate many people, and few would complain at you NOT using them!

Re: note style
Posted by Adrian Drover - 18 Oct 06:55PM

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You say the nicest things, Laurence. I have to say tho' that all of the common symbol fonts that ship with Sib are so user unfriendly to those players with ageing eyesight. Articulation marks too tiny to read clearly. $igns and codas far to small to locate in busy areas of the chart. I have spent many hours making duplicate common symbol styles with larger font size and editing zymbols to accommodate those characters which need to be seen more clearly. Not one player has yet complained about my presentation, and I play a lot with "geezer" bands ;-)

Re: note style
Posted by Laurence Payne - 18 Oct 07:08PM

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I certainly agree that the standard coda and segno signs are too small. Fortunately, as they're normally text objects rather than Zymbols it's easy to enlarge them. (And that's one of the reasons we normally DO use text rather than symbol.)

Re: note style
Posted by Adrian Drover - 19 Oct 07:55AM

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The problem is that many users don't seem to realize that they are far too small to be quickly located w'out manual enlargement, and put them in the most obscure places.

Re: note style
Posted by Ole Bollom - 19 Oct 01:40PM

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OK. I found JazzInkPen and that was what I was looking for. Thank you.

Re: note style
Posted by Bob Zawalich - 20 Oct 08:57AM

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You might also have a look at the Pori fonts, derived from the open source Petaluma fonts from Steinberg, and offered for Sibelius by NYC Music Services (https://www.nycmusicservices.com/musicresources/).

Rather elegant handwritten font.

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note style - Ole Bollom, 17 Oct 04:06PM

Re: note style - Laurence Payne, 17 Oct 11:49PM

Re: note style - Adrian Drover, 18 Oct 07:00AM

Re: note style - Ole Bollom, 18 Oct 04:11PM

Re: note style - Adrian Drover, 18 Oct 04:26PM

Re: note style - Laurence Payne, 18 Oct 05:24PM

Re: note style - Adrian Drover, 18 Oct 06:55PM

Re: note style - Laurence Payne, 18 Oct 07:08PM

Re: note style - Adrian Drover, 19 Oct 07:55AM

Re: note style - Ole Bollom, 19 Oct 01:40PM

Re: note style - Bob Zawalich, 20 Oct 08:57AM