In the year 1528 Pierre Attaignant led a revolution in music printing. His method of once-press moveable type, greatly simplifying the original 3 impression process developed by Petrucci, remained in use till near the end of the 17th century. The method could only realize one line of music per staff, and the introduction of barlines as a common means of aligning multiple staves brought this method to a close after nearly two centuries of use.

This font is meant to allow the printing of music using that method with the notation of that era. It is largely based on an exemplar printed by Snodham of London. It also has the capability of dealing with the even earlier black notation.