Norfolk fonts for Sibelius

The Norfolk family of fonts is a derivative of Bravura that is expressly reconfigured to work within Sibelius. Bravura is a SMuFL-compliant music font family, designed by Daniel Spreadbury at Steinberg for Dorico, its scoring application.

Because Sibelius does not support SMuFL (Standard Music Font Layout), a series of derivative fonts needed to be created in order for Bravura to be compatible with Sibelius. These fonts are:

Norfolk Std
Norfolk Text Std
Norfolk Special Std
Norfolk Special II Std
Norfolk Special Extra Std
Norfolk Ornaments Std
Norfolk Metronome Std
Norfolk Chords Std
Norfolk PlainChords Std
Norfolk Chords Sans Std
Norfolk PlainChords Sans Std
Norfolk Chords ASC Std
Norfolk Chords ASL Std
Norfolk Chords Sans ASC Std
Norfolk Chords Sans ASL Std
Norfolk Harp Std

Each Norfolk font is intended as a replacement for its analogous Opus font, with the exception of:

Special II, which is an additional font containing Bravura characters not found or easily replaced in Opus, such as precomposed octave clefs;

Harp Std, which is an additional font containing Bravura characters for use with harp techniques;

The ASC/ASL Std fonts, additional fonts to achieve chord symbols that place an altered bass note underneath an angled separator in a diagonal arrangement, like this:

Included along with the Norfolk fonts is a house style designed to take maximum advantage of Norfolk’s characteristics.

Included with the Norfolk fonts are:

• Academico, a serif text font designed by Daniel Spreadbury at Steinberg for Dorico and intended to pair well with Norfolk Chords and PlainChords;
• Gothic A1, a sans-serif text font designed by HanYang I&C Co. and intended to pair well with Norfolk Chords Sans and PlainChords Sans;
• Figurato, a figured bass font designed by Florian Kretlow.

Included along with these fonts is a house style designed to take maximum advantage of Norfolk’s characteristics. The house style is otherwise similar to Standard Opus (Times), but uses the Academico font as its main text font. You do not need the house style, Academico, or Gothic A1 to use the Norfolk fonts.

Also included is a Sibelius document intended to help transfer Norfolk Harp Std characters into an existing Sibelius document.