Fingering numbers for piano and guitar should be bold, letters should be italic typeface

• Dec 29, 2020 - 17:35
Reported version
3.x-dev
Type
Functional
Frequency
Once
Severity
S5 - Suggestion
Reproducibility
Always
Status
closed
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project
MuseScore

Recommendations from Behind Bars by Elaine Gould:

  • p.309 - Piano fingerings should use a bold typeface to avoid confusion with tuplet numbers.
  • p.373 - Guitar string numbers use a bold typeface in diagram (not mentioned in text).
  • p.375 - Guitar fingering numbers for left-hand (fretting) use a bold typeface in Bach extract (not mentioned in text).
  • p.374 - Guitar fingering letters p, i, m, a for right-hand (plucking) should use an italic typeface.

MuseScore's current fingering styles:

Fingering_styles_current.png

Proposed styles:

Fingering_styles_proposed.png

Attachment Size
Fingerings.mscz 4.17 KB

Comments

• Dec 29, 2020 - 17:37
Status active ⇒ fixed

After a Telegram discussion in the MuseScore Design group with @oktophonie and @MarcSabatella, it was decided to follow Gould's advice for fingering letters (i.e. make them italic) but not numbers. Numbers will remain non-bold for the following reasons:

  • Edwin's bold typeface is too heavy to look good (maybe we should add a semibold one).
  • There is a trend towards non-bold fingerings anyway, and some people prefer it that way.
  • Tuplet numbers and measure numbers are italic so that should help to avoid confusion.

Italic fingering letters was implemented here.

Implemented styles:

Fingering_styles_implemented.png

Reply

• Dec 29, 2020 - 18:20
Title Fingering numbers for piano and guitar should be bold, letters should be italic ⇒ Fingering numbers for piano and guitar should be bold, letters should be italic typeface
Fix version ⇒ 3.6.0

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Fix version
3.6.0