r/microtonal • u/kangxiradical • 15d ago

unicode added quarter tones!

there were already quarter tone symbols, but they've finally added the popular 24edo symbols:

of course, they don't render yet, but a neat new addition. so, with the existing microtonal accidentals:

we have a pretty good range now

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u/generationlost13 15d ago

I’ve never felt more like a nerd than now, feeling actually excited about this. No more lining up quarter tone symbols with text for front matters of scores in photoshop!

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u/kangxiradical 14d ago

hopefully a compatible font is made soon and we can all be happy

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u/Periodicity_Enjoyer 14d ago

So exciting. I wonder if the explosion of ADP popularity helped stuff like this happened. Exciting times to be microtonalist.

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u/skyhi14 14d ago

Welp, time to update my app!

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u/kangxiradical 14d ago

a ton of unicode listing apps don't even have these symbols yet

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u/RingularCirc 5d ago

Personally I've never seen U+1D132 and U+1D133 anywhere except in Unicode materials and fonts designed after them. Where did they even take those glyphs, huh? They could've just issued a redesign or some kind of correction instead of adding?.. (Except for sesqui-sharp and sesqui-flat, of course. Good they added them too!)

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u/kangxiradical 4d ago

yeah. it seems completely random but i don't think that's how it works