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About Really Loud Fonts
These fonts were developed in response to actual engraving requirements and practices, reflected in my personal typesetting adventures since FINALE's introduction to the Macintosh market in 1988. Generally speaking, Really Loud Fonts are intended to supplement Petrucci and the excellent Sonata font from Adobe Systems Inc. Each typeface has been designed to meet music publishing requirements, and should yield fine quality characters on any PostScript compatible printer. Being Type 1 fonts, our Macintosh music typefaces are ATM compatible, for optimum output on monitors and non-PostScript printers.
The fonts themselves address specific issues arising from FINALE's conventions and restrictions, in addition to the limitations of existing music fonts. These fonts are compatible with FINALE, other type-intensive applications, such as word processors and page layout programs, and any music notation software which permits the user to format and position characters at will. Please mail (or e-mail) your suggestions for improved or additional characters to the address on the order form at the end of this document
Many of the lesser-known notations and articulations, particularly those of ThesisFont, may be found in Kurt Stone's Music Notation in the Twentieth Century (W. W. Norton & Company), which summarizes the consensus of the International Conference on New Music Notation of 1974. Insofar as possible, Really Loud Fonts conform to these specifications and requirements.
The Really Loud Font Company is pleased to introduce our own versions of three music fonts originally designed by David Rakowski. Dr. Rakowski's Barnett, Lassus, and Musica fonts (licensed from Intecsas oHG)have been encoded using our proprietary methods for optimum compatability between Finale for Mac and Windows. The Really Loud Font Company's versions of these three fonts fonts also include additional characters and MacOS MultiMaster fonts.
Both the fonts and this documentation are provided on an "as-is" basis, bearing no express or implied warranties or claims as to their suitability for either private or commercial typesetting applications.