Standard Music Font Layout
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SMuFL is a specification that provides a standard way of mapping the thousands of musical symbols required by conventional music notation into the Private Use Area in Unicode's Basic Multilingual Plane for a single (format-independent) font.
Categories
- Music
- MusicXML
- Standard Music Font Layout (SMuFL)
- Music Encoding Initiative (MEI)
- Font
- Unicode
- fontmatrix - Useful as a GUI for viewing font metrics.
- fontforge - Well-known font GUI
Musical Symbols
- Musical Symbols
- Range 1D100–1D1FF
- http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D100.pdf
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U1D100.pdf
MusicXML Elements
Fonts
- Bravura
- The first SMuFL-compliant music font family is Bravura, designed by Daniel Spreadbury of Steinberg for Dorico, its next-generation music notation application.
- https://github.com/steinbergmedia/bravura
- OFL-1.1 license
- Bravura is currently at version 1.392, implementing SMuFL 1.4.
- The Bravura font family consists of two fonts.
- Bravura - For use in Scoring applications.
- Bravura Text - For use in Text-Based applications.
- Range is U+1D100 - U+1D1DD
- The Bravura font family is available under the SIL Open Font License.