| Standard Music Font Layout | |
| First published | 31 January 2013 [1] |
|---|---|
| Latest version | 1.4
[2] 20 March 2021 [2] |
| Organization | W3C [2] |
| Committee | W3C Music Notation Community Group [2] |
| Editors | Daniel Spreadbury [1] |
| License | W3C Community Final Specification Agreement [1] [3] |
| Website |
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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 [update], 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]
SMuFL support was added to the leading scorewriters in the following versions:
- MuseScore from version 2.0 in 2015 [11]
- Dorico from version 1.0.0 in 2016 [4]
- Finale from version 27 in 2021 [12]
- ^ a b c d e "Standard Music Font Layout (SMuFL) specification". github.com. W3C. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
- ^ a b c d e "Music Notation Community Group". w3.org. W3C. 13 December 2017. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
- ^ "W3C Community Final Specification Agreement". w3.org. W3C. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
- ^ a b c d e "SMuFL: Standard Music Font Layout". smufl.org. Steinberg. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
- ^ "A brief history of music fonts". w3.org. W3C. 16 March 2021. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
- ^ "Cleo Huggins - Font type designer". adobe.com. Adobe. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
- ^ "Software with SMuFL support". smufl.org. Steinberg. 18 May 2015. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
- ^ a b "SMuFL-compliant music fonts". smufl.org. Steinberg. 13 May 2013. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
- ^ Spreadbury, Daniel (23 May 2013). "Introducing Bravura, the new music font". dorico.com (Press release). Steinberg. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
- ^ "Bravura music font". github. W3C. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
- ^ "What's new in MuseScore 2". musescore.org. MuseScore BVBA. 23 March 2015. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
- ^ "Finale v27 Is Here!". finalemusic.com (Press release). MakeMusic. 15 June 2021. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
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