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  • jakefleming · 3 days ago

    This is one of those things that should obviously exist and I'm mad I didn't think of it!

    • efilife · 2 days ago

      So awesome. Sad it isn't getting the attention it deserves

      • djtriptych · 2 hours ago

        OMG. This solves like 8 problems with me. Currently teaching my niece guitar basics and have always wanted this for my guitar videos.

        • tuvix · 2 hours ago

          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]

          [0] https://github.com/0xfe/vextab

          • SaberTail · 1 hours ago

            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.

            • djtriptych · 1 hours ago

              Hmm yeah I guess what I really want is a maekdown style mini-language that compiles to tab format.

              • Finnucane · 1 hours ago

                Isn't that what LilyPond does, more or less?

                • TylerE · 59 minutes ago

                  Not really. The lilypond format is extremely...complicated and obscure (and that's my polite take on it). Even simple stuff is quite complex. Very very far from Markdown's virtually WYSIWYG.

                • TylerE · 57 minutes ago

                  There's no such thing as "Tab format". Tabs are just ascii text.

                • altmanaltman · 40 minutes ago

                  yeah this is not what guitar tabs are and I don't think a font should be used to do it or is the best method to do it. It can get really messy with time signature changes and managing all the strings and marks etc just by text and a font

                • sshanky · 48 minutes ago

                  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

                  • TylerE · 18 minutes ago

                    Yeah, as a guitarist this is hideously non-standard. Definition of change for the sake of change.

                  • altmanaltman · 43 minutes ago

                    Why does the number of chords in the library change as you scroll? It should remain static no?