From the Sonata Font Design Specification:

Sonata uses a mnemonic approach to mapping. One of the (many) barriers to interoperability between different scoring applications is that there is no agreement on how music fonts should work, beyond a very basic layout that dates back to the introduction of the first music font, Sonata, which was designed nearly 30 years ago by Cleo Huggins ( Adobe. There are two major components to the work: firstly, a proposed new standard for how musical symbols should be laid out in a font, which I have called the Standard Music Font Layout (SMuFL to its friends, pronounced with a long “u”, so something like “smoofle”) and secondly, a new music font, called Bravura. When using the music font Petaluma, the default font will automatically be set to Petaluma Script.Today I’m at the Music Encoding Conference in Mainz, Germany, where I am giving a presentation on the work I have been doing over the past several months on music fonts for our new application. The Noto Serif font remains available in the list of font families. This default font has been changed on March 2018, and the new one is now URW Century Schoolbook L (licensed under GNU GPL v2).

Font Familyīefore March 2018, the default font was Noto Serif. Some of them are alternatives and metric-compatible fonts from proprietary fonts. We also provided the following Open Source fonts on Flat. Most of the fonts provided on Flat are Open Source fonts that are directly served by Google Fonts.

By default, we use this unit for text elements that are linked to the staves, like lyrics and chords.

Staff space (sp) is a relative unit to your music staves, literally the space between two lines of the stave.

By default, we use this unit for text elements like the title and the subtitle that are not directly linked to your staves.

Points (pt) is an absolute unit that you usually find in text editors.

The sizes of the different texts can be set in two different units: points and staff space: italic) and the size of the font.įor every specific text type, you can adjust the settings: only the title of the score), and also adjust the weight (i.e. You can also change the font family for specific text types (e.g. From there, you can set the default font family used for all the texts in your score.

In the Layout settings, scroll to Text styles. On our mobile app, click on the edit button on the top of your screen. On our desktop web app, this is usually located on the right of your screen, or in the “Document” toolbar. To customize the text styles used in your score, open the Layout Settings, next to the print button. Flat lets you customize the styles of the different text elements in your scores.

Music font on word