LS Iris is back for sale
LS Iris, my handwritten SMuFL music font, is available again at Notation Central.
I first released Iris in 2021 through Music Type Foundry, and later made it available at Notation Central when MTF shuttered. At some point I pulled it. My personal and professional life look extremely different now from what they did when I first released the font, and I was simply unable to both keep up with all your requests for support, and keep up with the work needed to eventually ameliorate the need for those requests.
It seems the design sparked the interest in engraving fonts for the first time in a very large swath of users, whereas its natural habitat (or so I thought) would be the hands of a few habitués. I feel so privileged to have made something that resonated that widely, and I mean this with the utmost respect for everyone that showed appreciation, but the reason some support was lacking at first, or why so much was left unsaid, is because I thought the target users would be much more acquainted with the whole process — otherwise, I would’ve tried to frontload some of the support materials and documentation. I did start to react to everything (while also looking into outsourcing some of technical tasks), but there was a lot of ground to cover, and, critically, an unwillingness on my part to release it piecemeal (just for one platform, or just targeting one software, for example).
Enter Philip Rothman and Notation Central. By putting it in the expert hands of Philip and Nor Eddine Bahha — who have already done tremendous work reviving the MTF catalog —, I hope to be able to satisfy those who have, over the years, shown interest in the typeface but perhaps couldn’t enjoy it fully. Let me extend both my appreciation and my apologies to those who have shown interest (even after all this time), those who have directly or indirectly contacted me over the years, and those just arriving.
This new bundle contains much more than my original typefaces; read about it in the Scoring Notes blog post.