Musical Fonts
Does anyone know how to change the appearance of one's score. I really want to get that (I don't know in what other way to describe it) that IMSLP score look. I was unable to find any information of if it even is called a 'musical font' let alone how to change or create one. I have provided an example of what kind of look I am going for as an IMSLP score PDF.
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Virtually every publisher has their own musical symbol fonts they use, there is no single "IMSLP score look". MuseScore 3 supports four different musical symbol fonts: Emmentaler (the default), Gonville, Bravura, and MuseJazz. You can switch between them in Format / Style / Score. Perhaps one of those will happen to come closer to the particular look you are after. Beyond that, there are tons of other settings in that same dialog for things like thickness of staff lines, barlines, and stems, fonts and size for text, etc.
where are stored the musescore fonts?
on Mac/catalina
TIA
In reply to where are stored the… by amelchi
They are embedded in the program code.
In reply to They are embedded in the… by [DELETED] 16875981
At least for Windows, not so for Linux though, and I'm not sure about macOS
In reply to At least for Windows, not so… by Jojo-Schmitz
Hello. Is it possible to change some aspects of a font? For example, in the baroque lute font Bonneuil-DeVisée, I would like to make the numbers that symbolize the open bass strings bigger (see attached example). Is that possible, and if yes, how? Thank you. Peter Chase.
In reply to Hello. Is it possible to… by retepchase
Only if you change those embeded fonts. And then others won't see it, other than in a PFD export
In reply to Only if you change those… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thank you. Do you know of a good font editor for mac?
In reply to Thank you. Do you know of a… by retepchase
Won't help you much, as these fonts are embeded, so in addition to modifying them you'd need to build your own MuseScore
In reply to Won't help you much, as… by Jojo-Schmitz
OK. Thank you.
In reply to OK. Thank you. by retepchase
Hello. I modified the MScoreTab font and it works in Musescore. The fonts for Musescore on mac are in the package contents of the Musescore app in the ressources folder.
In reply to Hello. I modified the… by retepchase
Maybe you could share that modified font?
In reply to Maybe you could share that… by Jojo-Schmitz
Here it is as well as a picture (MuseScore Package contents Mac) of where it should be placed (on Mac).
I would suggest saving the original MScoreTab font (or renaming it MScoreTabOld for example) before replacing it by this one (which should then be renamed to the original name MScoreTab.ttf).
Greetings, Peter Chase.