jazz music notes the word music in different fonts

I assume some other chord definitions file will need to be updated with the new codepoints if that's what we do. I can place the yellow ones at any other codepoint, if there are no objections. The glyphs highlighted in CYAN are in SMuFL, but are at the wrong codepoint (which I can correct). The glyphs in highlighted in YELLOW are not in SMuFL at all. However, I've noticed that some of the music/chord glyphs in the current MuseJazzText font are set at codepoints that are set aside for other glyphs in SMuFL: So, I'm in the process of creating the new MuseJazzText font and merging the old text font by the same name into it for a comprehensive music text font. But frankly, I'd be as interested in a 'regular' (not 'handwritten') font that had these same design considerations. I think that, overall, the MuseJazz / MuseJazz Text combo does pretty well on these counts. For chord symbols specifically, we usually like capital and lower case to be clearly differentiated, with relatively heavy strokes but a fairly narrow character width so that long chord symbols like 'Cma7#11' can be parsed at a glance but not take a ton of room on the page. And we usually do better with a wider spacing than otherwise, although that's more a software thing than a font thing.

The generally heavier weights of the strokes in most 'jazz' fonts helps with legibility when sight reading in relatively dark jazz clubs, etc. I've expressed the idea before that I think handwritten fonts tend to be a bit of an affectation, but I do see a very real potential value in certain aspects of them. I do think I have a pretty good sense of what works when it comes to music fonts for jazz, though. So I don't think there would be anything useful to learn from looking at my chicken scratch :-) And whatever skills I might have had back years ago, I haven't practiced at all since - I rely on notation software almost exclusively for everything once I get past the initial sketches of a musical idea. One of the reasons I started using notation software so many years ago (like, like 1980's) is that I don't think I have particularly good penmanship.

Jazz music notes the word music in different fonts