Whenever I change the font of a title, subtitle, or composer in the MuseScore software, it defaults to what looks like Arial whenever I publish it.
I've been trying to figure out a way to keep the font that I chose for my score once I publish it, but it always defaults to Arial, and I haven't been able to find any solutions.
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Double click on it, select the text you want to change and edit the settings at the bottom of the window?
In reply to Double click on it, select… by kuwitt
No, I know how to change it in the software. What I meant is whenever I publish it, on the published score it defaults to Arial.
If you're talking about publishing on musescore.com, it's because the MuseScore backend used there supports only a small list of fonts.
According to this post from 2017, the list of additional fonts is:
(For licensing reasons, one or more of the above are substituted with metrics-compatible fonts that don't look exactly the same. For example, Gelasio is used instead of Georgia.)
According to the same post, it's also possible that fonts hosted on Google Fonts are supported as well. If so, that's a pretty long list.
In reply to If you're talking about… by Spire42
I see. That is a bit weird considering that the software contains so many fonts, yet the website can support only a small percentage of them. I wonder why that is.
In reply to I see. That is a bit weird… by crann marbh
The MuseScore software doesn't contain all of the fonts that you see; your computer does.
The computer that runs the copy of MuseScore that drives musescore.com doesn't contain the same set of fonts that your computer does.
In reply to I see. That is a bit weird… by crann marbh
The software contains two text font, FreeSerif and FreeSans. All others are taken from the operating system and may not be available on other machines . Use FreeSerif (the default) and the score will look the same on your computer, on musescore.com and anywhere else too.
In reply to I see. That is a bit weird… by crann marbh
This isn't anything unique to MuseScore, BTW. Same with pretty much any program. Create a text document with your favorite word processor using your favorite fonts. Send that file to another user, and if he doesn't have those fonts, he will see something different. It's just a fact of life with sharing documents that you have to limit yourself to fonts that you know other users will also have. Unless you only plan to share PDF - these have the fonts embedded within them. But along the way they also lose everything that made them editable in the original software used to create them - they are little more than "pictures" of your document, not the document itself.