eduardomourar / fiati

Fiati music font with Fingering Diagram for multiple musical instruments

Fiati music font

Fiati is an OpenType music font with fingering diagram/chart for multiple musical instruments. Because mainly wind instruments need those diagrams for teaching and learning, we have decided to call this font fiati (plural of "breath" in Italian, a simplified way of calling that instrument category).

Introduction

Fiati is based in the fingering section from Bravura font v0.93 and the SMuFL documentation, so most of the credit for this font goes to Daniel Spreadbury from Steinberg Media.

Installation

Download the font files from the releases page within this repository. To install the font, it is usually just a case of double-clicking the downloaded file and agreeing to the install process. Please, refer to the usage documentation for more details.

Specimen

Copyright and License

For copyright and licensing - including any Reserved Font Names - see OFL.txt.

For practical information about using, modifying and redistributing this font see OFL-FAQ.txt.

For more details about this project, including changelog and acknowledgements see FONTLOG.txt.

Repository Layout

This font repository structure is inspired by SIL Font Development.

fiati's Issues

Some glyphs have a white outline

A few glyphs have a white outline,

instead of a solid black color.

Wrong codepoint in documentation and font

The documentation says:

The Unicode code point for a flute base diagram in Fiati is U+EC40

This is wrong, though. U+EC40 in SMuFL is a Kodály hand sign, and according to FontForge, there’s some kind of instrument (can’t tell which) base diagram at, for example, U+E280 instead… not that that’s any better.

There’s also no list of codepoints included in the font…

Delete README.txt and link to fiati-usage.md instead

I found it confusing upon finding the repo that there were two README files in the root directory, one README.md which was displayed in the normal github way, and another README.txt that was linked to in the original file. I think it makes more sense to link to the fiati-usage.md file and delete the README.txt which is essentially a copy. Another route would be to copy/paste the usage docs into the README.md, but that defeats the purpose of having a separate usage doc altogether.

Add Whistle fingering

It would be good to have the Fiati music font extended for the Tin Whistle and Low Whistle. The Tin Whistle is also called the Penny Whistle. This font can be constructed using the Bret Pimentel Fingering Diagram Builder at :
https://fingering.bretpimentel.com/
There is already options for Instrument 'Simple System' and Key Set 'Pennywhistle'.
This would support issue in repo eduardomourar/fingering-diagram:
eduardomourar/fingering-diagram#9

Add flute kingma system fingering

We can follow the keys from Bred Pimentel's Fingering builder:

Or this one from Anne La Berge:

Implement Brass simple diagram

The fingering diagrams for Brass (valved) instruments should be relative easy to implement, but consider it always horizontal probably. We can use the unicode range from E640 to E6DF.

Add Xaphoon fingering

We need support for Xaphoon instrument fingering. Some charts examples can be checked here.