Norfolk fonts for Sibelius
The Norfolk family of fonts is a derivative of Bravura that is expressly reconfigured to work within Sibelius.
When you pay for the Norfolk fonts, you help support its development. Thank you!
Suggested price: $20.00
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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.
Steinberg describes Bravura as drawing upon the heritage of the finest European music engraving of the 19th and early 20th centuries, with a bolder and more substantial look than most other music fonts: thin strokes are slightly thicker than in other fonts, improving the overall “blackness” of the font and its legibility when read at a distance.
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 Sibelius template with a house style designed to take maximum advantage of Norfolk’s characteristics. The house style is a simplified version of the house style used in the Scoring Express Chamber templates. Although you do not need the house style or the Academico font to use the Norfolk fonts, they are recommended.
Also included is a Sibelius document intended to help transfer Norfolk Harp Std characters into an existing Sibelius document.
What’s the difference between downloading the Norfolk or Pori fonts and purchasing Scoring Express?
| Feature | Norfolk / Pori fonts only | Scoring Express |
|---|---|---|
| Fonts | Norfolk and Pori are separate items | All Norfolk, Pori, and other high quality music and text fonts included with every purchase; more than 40 in all |
| Installation | Manual | Automatic installer. No separate font download or installation necessary |
| Templates | No | At least 9 different templates included |
| House Styles | 1 basic per font | Yes: One per template, plus a parts house style |
| Manuscript Papers | No | Yes: One per template |
| Plug-ins | No | Yes |
| Custom features | Limited | Many extra symbols, lines, hierarchical text styles, engraving rules, positioning settings and note spacing rule |
| Example files | No | Yes |
| Support | No | Yes |
| Price | $20.00 (suggested contribution) | $69.99 - $79.99 |
Documentation
Norfolk
Angled slash chord fonts (ASC/ASL)
Compatibility
The Norfolk Chords and Chords Sans ASC/ASL Std fonts will only work in Sibelius 2018.11 and higher. For best results it is highly recommended to use Sibelius 2019.5 or later.
For practical reasons, it was not possible to faithfully reproduce every symbol in Norfolk. Many of Sibelius’s symbols are actually composite symbols with intricate and tightly integrated positioning. Norfolk is, after all, a third-party font, and while we have tried our best to make it work as completely as possible, it is not as fully supported as the fonts that ship with Sibelius. If you have suggestions on how Norfolk can be improved, please contact us.
License
This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. This license is available with a FAQ at: http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
Credits
Norfolk derives its name from Norfolk, Connecticut, home of the Norfolk Music Festival, where Jean Sibelius conducted the premiere of his work The Oceanides during his only visit to the United States in 1914.
Matthew Maslanka of Maslanka Music Prep did all the heavy lifting porting Bravura to Norfolk, and creating the original Norfolk house style.
Jeff Kellem of Slanted Hall Type Foundry created the Norfolk chord symbol fonts, updated the Norfolk Text Std font numerals and was greatly influential in continuing to develop the Norfolk project.
Robin Walker is responsible for updating Norfolk Text Std with ligated dynamics and greatly contributed to the overall development of all of the fonts.
Bob Zawalich and Robin Walker developed the Norfolk Harp Std font and created the transfer document.
Bernie Cossentino of Twin Page Productions invented the concept of the angled slash chord font, created the Norfolk Chords ASC/ASL Std fonts based on the Norfolk Chords Std font, and greatly contributed to the overall development of the chord symbol fonts.
Bravura and Academico were designed by Daniel Spreadbury of Steinberg Media Technologies.
Figurato was designed by Florian Kretlow.
Gothic A1 was designed by HanYang I&C Co.
Special thanks to Sam Butler of Avid Technology, Inc., for permission to use the Opus font structure in the course of creating Norfolk.
grandrew1992@gmail.com (verified owner) –
Norfolk is what I use for advanced works with a distinguished look. I also use some of the text fonts that come with this package for all kinds of other things—the whole package just has a great look. Thanks, Notation Central!
Marcos (verified owner) –
Great effort at developing the Norfolk font. I needed a font that looks professional and also easy to read, and I found it in this font. Thanks to the team for this tool, really recommended.
Jordan Grigg (verified owner) –
Absolutely most polished looking font I have used to date.
Tiago Costa (verified owner) –
Has become my default music font instantly.
Charles (verified owner) –
Awesome, another great font!
jlr (verified owner) –
Looking great !
Solene (verified owner) –
Amazing! This font help me so much to use music notation in word or sheets documents! Thank you so much!
Brett Austin Eastman (verified owner) –
Great font. I want a refined and professional look, and of all the fonts I’ve tried, this is my go to.