How I Designed a Free Music Font for 5 Million Musicians (MuseScore 3.6)

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it as an entertaining look at how hard notation fonts are to make, and it comes up in threads on music engraving and open source.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Tantacrul

Topic

music notation fonts

Format

explainer

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

5

HN mentions in dataset

6

Recommendation years in dataset

2021–2024

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From the original HN conversations

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• Tantacrul’s video about the creation of the new engraving font ( [VIDEO] ) is also an important story about the MS-DOS Score program, software obsolescence and stewardship, and the loss of value that can happen when an industry relies on proprietary software. Without polemics or …

• That's really interesting. I don't envy anyone who had to do music engraving prior to the usage of computers, so hats off to you and thanks for your contributions. Musical notation is such a complex, intricate, system and even with computers it's still a challenging …

• If anyone's curious, here are Tantacrul's entertaining videos on MuseScore and designing MuseScore's new font, and the Audacity video from yesterday: [LINK] [VIDEO] [LINK]