SMuFL

SMuFL
Standard Music Font Layout
First published31 January 2013[1]
Latest version1.4[2]
20 March 2021[2]
OrganizationW3C[2]
CommitteeW3C Music Notation Community Group[2]
EditorsDaniel Spreadbury[1]
LicenseW3C Community Final Specification Agreement[1][3]
Websitewww.smufl.org Edit this at Wikidata

Standard Music Font Layout, or SMuFL, is an open standard for music font mapping.[4] The standard[1] was originally developed by Daniel Spreadbury[4][1] of Steinberg for its scorewriter software Dorico,[4] but is now developed and maintained by the W3C Music Notation Community Group, along with the standard for MusicXML (which, itself, supports SMuFL).[2]

SMuFL is a substantial development beyond the previous de facto mapping standard created by Cleo Huggins in the Sonata font she designed for Adobe in 1985[4][5] (which was Adobe's first original typeface[6]).

Numerous scorewriters support SMuFL[7] (as of June 2021, these include Dorico, Finale and MuseScore but not LilyPond or Sibelius) and a number of free and commercial SMuFL-compliant fonts are available.[8]

Bravura, designed by Daniel Spreadbury of Steinberg for Dorico and initially released in 2013, is the SMuFL reference font.[8][9][10]

Support

SMuFL support was added to the leading scorewriters in the following versions:

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Standard Music Font Layout (SMuFL) specification". github.com. W3C. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Music Notation Community Group". w3.org. W3C. 13 December 2017. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
  3. ^ "W3C Community Final Specification Agreement". w3.org. W3C. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
  4. ^ a b c d e "SMuFL: Standard Music Font Layout". smufl.org. Steinberg. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
  5. ^ "A brief history of music fonts". w3.org. W3C. 16 March 2021. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
  6. ^ "Cleo Huggins - Font type designer". adobe.com. Adobe. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
  7. ^ "Software with SMuFL support". smufl.org. Steinberg. 18 May 2015. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
  8. ^ a b "SMuFL-compliant music fonts". smufl.org. Steinberg. 13 May 2013. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
  9. ^ Spreadbury, Daniel (23 May 2013). "Introducing Bravura, the new music font". dorico.com (Press release). Steinberg. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
  10. ^ "Bravura music font". github. W3C. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
  11. ^ "What's new in MuseScore 2". musescore.org. MuseScore BVBA. 23 March 2015. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
  12. ^ "Finale v27 Is Here!". finalemusic.com (Press release). MakeMusic. 15 June 2021. Retrieved 24 June 2021.


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