Yankadi II font

Writing music has evolved over the past centuries into a complicated art with many many symbols and with a terminology of its own. There are very good high-end programs available for writing music, and they even make your computer play back symphonies of CD quality and realism, such as Finale or Sibelius.

Fortunately for African percussion, for djembe and doundouns, we don't need most of it . What remains is a very small subset of symbols that can be incorporated into a computer font, so that we can simply type the music in a normal word processor. This simplicity makes it easy to learn.

The style of this font is similar to the font used in Mamady Keita's book A Life for the Djembe. I have taken great care to design my own font for maximum legibility and still keep it compact. I have used Typetool 3 from Fontlab for this work, see the software page.

The Yankadi font

Copyright

I find this font important enough to make it freely available. However, it is not public domain, so please do not put it on your web site! Instead, feel free to tell everyone about it and give them a link to this page so they can download it themselves.

I do ask for a small donation if you download it. Computer programs and web sites are expensive, so support this work if you are able, by donating 5 or 10 US dollars or Euro's for example.

Download

Download the Yankadi font
Includes full installation instructions and keyboard map for printing.