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Musica Font
Musica is a font created by David Rakowski and licensed by the Really Loud Font Company from Intecsas oHG. The Really Loud Font Company has re-encoded Musica for cross-platform compatability between Mac and WindowsOS but has otherwise remained faithful to Dr. Rakowski's original design.
David's documentation for Musica explains the font's uses:
- the extended trill
- a continuous musical staff
- a piano keyboard
- a sine wave pattern
- beamed eighth notes or beamed sixteenth notes.
The point of Musica is to print musical characters that can be inserted in text in a word processor -- not for musical notation. Many music fonts have beautifully drawn characters, but since they are scaled to relative sizes, using them in text changes the line spacing drastically; for instance, to use the "natural" sign at the correct size in a line of text, the spacing gets changed to quintuple spacing so that each line has excessive white space above and below it. The notes in Musica have deliberately large noteheads so that they will print large enough to read in a block of 12-point text and on institutional microfilms.
Some characters in the font are set up to print repeating patterns.
The most notable among them are:
Click on any of the examples to ftp a PostScript rendering of the example to your local disk.
The examples below illustrate Musica's MacOS keyboard layout (identical to the Musica for Windows character set). Click on any of the examples to ftp a PostScript rendering of the graphic.
