That’s hard to answer without showing off! But let me risk giving you some hints anyway: It is a font with a very distinctive warm, inky look that has been designed with the utmost attention to detail. I really hate the idea of programmed obsolescence and I try to develop my fonts and code with as much backward compatibility in mind as possible. It is definitely worth the effort in the long term.Īs far as November 2, I won’t say it is typographically perfect, although I would be very tempted to say so! Seriously, I don’t foresee “November 3” and I think the future of November 2 lies in a good maintenance plan keeping up with operating systems and music notation programs, and also make sure it can still work with relatively old versions.
DORICO FONT SOFTWARE
So I do believe that music fonts that are not yet SMuFL-compliant will have to make the leap at some point - or disappear.įont designers and music notation software makers might be somewhat afraid of SMuFL’s giant pool of glyphs - about 2600 - but they don’t need to implement everything all at once. Many music notation apps or frameworks, whether as regular desktop applications or on the web, have adopted SMuFL, and it is still growing. It is a steady, reassuring environment to develop music fonts in.
DORICO FONT UPDATE
SMuFL is now so close to typography and encoding perfection, and I can’t think of any update except to add more rare symbols. Q: What are the recent updates to SMuFL and what does it mean for the future of November 2 and other fonts?
DORICO FONT PDF
Since we chatted in 2017, I issued a couple substantial maintenance releases, adding a hundred new symbols (mostly for greater Dorico compatibility) and a simple yet useful Finale plug-in: a shortcut to the comprehensive help PDF file. There have been many updates, but November “2” was a major one, since it was upgraded to Unicode and SMuFL, along with a tremendous (and necessary) expansion of the symbol map. November is a project I started as early as 1998. He was kind enough to answer our questions about November and his work with music notation software. What’s more, he’s just an all-around nice fellow. Robert is a software engineer, composer, performer, and font designer. In addition to creating November, Robert is the creator of Medieval 2 (also available at Notation Central), a comprehensive solution for creating early music in Finale. If you use Finale, you’ve likely been the beneficiary of Robert’s work in achieving more realistic playback, automation, and more.
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Robert Piéchaud is an invaluable contributor to the music notation software community. November 2 was the first commercial font developed for SMuFL (Standard Music Font Layout), and Dorico users will be particularly pleased that switching to it is as easy as clicking a button. This premium font comes with extensive documentation for use in Finale, Sibelius, and Dorico.
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At Notation Central, our online marketplace for music notation technology, we’re thrilled to have for sale November 2 by Robert Piéchaud, praised for years by musicians, publishers and engravers as one of the finest and most vivid fonts ever designed for music notation software.