Music Fonts

You can change the style of your music by changing the music font – similar to how you’d change the font of your text in a word processor.

Dorico uses the Standard Music Font Layout (SMuFL) to map the thousands of musical symbols required. The default Dorico font is called Bravura, and there is also an included jazz-style font called Petaluma as well as the SMuFL fonts that were previously available with Finale.

If you’d like to add additional music fonts to Dorico, you can purchase and download SMuFL fonts from various sites, including those listed below.

For more information about SMuFL format, please see SMuFL.org

SMUFL music fonts

Notation Central

A large selection of music and text fonts, including for early music, November, those by Music Type Foundry (such as MTF Arnold, Beethoven, Haydn, Scorlatti), Norfonts (such as BlueNotes, BopMusic, The Copyist), MusAnalysis, MusGlyphs and more.

Elbsound Studio

An extensive list of fonts from Elbsound and other sources.

Norfonts

Engraver-style, handwritten-style and font bundles available.

Music Type Foundry

MTF fonts (Arnold, Beethoven, Cadence, Gutenberg, Haydn, Improviso, Ross, Scorlatti) can now be purchased from Notation Central.

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