TabFont: The Unique Font That Renders Guitar Tabs as You Type
TabFont – guitar tabs rendered as you type
I created TabFont, the only font that automatically draws guitar chords and tabs as you type chord names. Whether you input 'Cmaj' or standard tab notation, the font instantly visualizes the strings and frets. This tool streamlines music notation for guitarists, turning simple text into clear, playable diagrams directly in your document.
The only font that renders guitar tabs as you type.
- SaberTail
The name is misleading. The glyphs are showing individual chord shapes. I can't write out a song using this. At best I can use this at the top of a tab to remind myself how the chords are meant to be shaped. But that doesn't appear to work much beyond the basic cowboy chords. For example, I tried 577655 which is an A major barre chord, and it didn't render. I realize a font can only do so much, but I wouldn't pay for this.
- sshanky
Does anyone find the little "finger" shapes confusing? I would rather see circles, so my brain doesn't have to adapt to a new way of reading tabs. Also, the inverted "D" shape is hard to parse because it's not a symmetric shape. Cool idea, other than that! It reminds me of this new QR code font I read about just yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48703200
- tuvix
Extremely cool. This got me thinking that I would love to have a mermaid-like dsl for creating full tabs and apparently it exists![0]