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In 2015, I was commissioned by The Apostolic Christian Church (Nazarene) to make a reproduction of The Apostolic Christian Hymnal or (as it's also known) the English Zion’s Harp . None of the existing music fonts were found to be even a close match to the typeface or legacy feel of the original and so the task of recreating the original letterpress sorts in an OpenType font, resulted in Hymnal. The first digital font optimised for display in choral music or indeed, any setting which calls for tight optimis
The original Hymnal font created for the English Zion’s Harp contained a limited number of characters. The inventory of characters required, did not include dynamics, clefs beyond the G and the F, ornaments, most of the articulations and more. In the course of developing Hymnal, I have had to look beyond the original text and survey a broad range of contemporaneous texts, all of which pointed towards a fully-fledged font with all the most commonly used characters relevant to a wide range of styles and g
Hymnal is in final stages of development as I speak. The first release in OpenType and TrueType flavours will be configured for Sibelius on PC, but after configuration and testing more equivalent versions will follow, for Finale, MuseScore and Dorico. Many thanks by the way, to Daniel Spreadbury for his invaluable support with the Dorico configuration.