Accidental (Tag) | FontStruct

9 07361 Published: 28th September, 2023
Last edited: 30th September, 2023
Created: 28th September, 2023

A very tiny font for western music. Might support other types of music notation in the future. (Finished in 3 days… for now)

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6 01042 Published: 6th July, 2022
Last edited: 6th July, 2022
Created: 4th July, 2022

This font is a collection of musical accidentals for uses in musical and music-theoretical contexts. The symbols should, at the very least, line up at a common line and have similar size to regular characters, so you can use them to express just about anything relating to musical pitch, particularly microtonal theory.

The set includes (in no logical order, my apologies):

- Regular accidentals up to triple sharp and triple flat

- Stein-Zimmerman quarter tone accidentals up to double-semi-sharp and double-semi-flat

- Accidentals with arrows, up to two arrows up/down on both sets of regular accidentals (up to double flat/sharp) and Stein accidentals (up to sesqui-sharp/sesqui-flat)

- Wyschnegradsky 72-EDO accidentals, up to 11/12-tone sharp and 11/12-tone flat

- Turkish accidentals used in the Turkish 53-EDO-esque system, as well as x-comma sharps and flats

- Persian quarter tone accidentals, should they be needed

- Heimholtz-Ellis Just Intonation accidentals up to 29-limit JI, as well as symbols for tempered notes

- Simple arrows. Just two arrows; one up, one down.

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15 4833 Published: 12th November, 2014
Last edited: 28th November, 2014
Created: 11th November, 2014
A modular accidental font.

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123 114225 Published: 30th May, 2009
Last edited: 30th June, 2009
Created: 27th May, 2009
A tribute to Josef Albers: inadvertently inspired by saberrider and afrojet. This font totally happened by accident. Recently, saberrider created steep, which uses a 2.0 x 1.11 filter setting to smoothly blend the quarter-circle bricks into the triangles. After saberrider created his experimental variable scale fontstruction, it lead me to revisit an abandoned work I did from last year that was done in a similar scale. After getting over the initial disgust of looking at the dismal failure, I started tweaking. Then I decided to tweak the letters instead. It became apparent that I could create a stencil type font that also looked like Josef Alber's font. Coincidentally, Saberrider also has a variation with fontstract, and of course, that Stewf guy has his own family of Leaflets. ;-) Afrojet's sessions came into play in creating some of the letter forms, especially the numerals. The final filter setting became 1.638 x 1.08, which created a nice fusion of the curved and triangular bricks, but was also naturally inclined to necessitate the vertical divide on each glyph. The rest flowed rather easily from there. Here's to more happy accidents. =) The sample is also a tribute to Alber's color theory, showing the names in identical colors, which, when juxtaposed over contrasting colors tricks the eye into thinking the bottom name is darker than the top. The following Josef Albers quote can relate to all things creative, like fontstructing, not just color: "It should be clear by now that our way of studying color does not start with the past - neither with works of the past nor with its theories. As we begin principally with the material, color itself, and its action and interaction as registered in our minds, we practice first and mainly a study of ourselves. Thus, we replace looking backward by looking first at ourselves and our surroundings, and replace retrospection with introspection." - Josef Albers This is a clone

Bauhaus inspired

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