SMuFL

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
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

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. "Standard Music Font Layout (SMuFL) specification". github.com. W3C. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
  2. "Music Notation Community Group". w3.org. W3C. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
  3. "W3C Community Final Specification Agreement". w3.org. W3C. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
  4. "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. "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.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.