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How I Designed a Free Music Font for 5 Million Musicians (MuseScore 3.6)
Tantacrul
Tantacrul explains how he and engraver Simon Smith designed the free music notation font for MuseScore 3.6. It draws on the history of the SCORE notation application by Leland Smith.
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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