Scoring Notes
Cleo Huggins, the designer of the first music font [encore]
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We talk a lot about fonts on the Scoring Notes podcast. But there was a time when there were no music fonts. And then, there was one.
Cleo Huggins, on the staff of Adobe in 1986, designed Sonata, the very first music font. It’s hard to imagine today, but it was revolutionary at the time, and a leading industry publication called it the “Music Product of the Year”. Sonata provided the blueprint…