Vintage Plate – SMuFL

Installation

The installers

Each NorFonts SMuFL font comes with two folders: one for macOS, one for Windows. The installers will automatically the fonts to the System Font folder of the OS:

macOS: /Library/Fonts/
Windows: C:WindowsFonts

The installers will install also the required JSON files to their related directories:

macOS: /Library/Application Support/SMuFL/Fonts
Windows: C:Program FilesCommon FilesSMuFLFonts

And also will install new NF libraries for use with Finale v27:

macOS: /Library/Application Support/MakeMusic/Finale 27/Libraries/
Windows: C:ProgramDataMakeMusicFinale 27Libraries

Applying NorFonts SMuFL fonts in Dorico

When running Dorico, it will find the new metadata file and will make an entry for the font in its list of available music fonts. However, to use your SMuFL font:

• Open a Dorico score,
• Go to Engrave mode (Ctrl+3 or Cmd+3), click on the Engrave > Music Fonts menu option,
• In the dialog window that appears, click on the name of the font in the list, then click the button “Change Music Font” select the desired font to apply the font to your open score project;

You can optionally check or uncheck the box to use the recommended engraving options; click “OK”, you’ll notice that your score project is taking effect of the changes with the newly selected font.

If your SMuFL font has a corresponding text font, you might also want to change the ‘Default text’ style in Engrave > Paragraph Styles and also the ‘Default text font’ font style in Engrave > Font Styles. For example, for the BlueNotes font, change this to BlueNotes Alpha font, and Engrave > Character Styles set Music Text to BlueNotes Text font.

Finale Library files and stem connections

Please note, because Finale is no longer being actively developed, use of NorFonts in Finale is no longer supported. Information about Finale is provided for reference only.

For each NorFonts SMuFL font, there is included a Finale library file to be used and loaded in case of misaligned stem connections. The issue of misaligned stems is still present with Finale v27 under both macOS & Windows. For example, when you Set Default Music Font to “Mezza” SMuFL font, you’ll notice that Finale v27 doesn’t handle the stem connections correctly.

The issue has been addressed by MakeMusic in a Knowledge Base article.

Another solution would be: File > Load Library… select “Mezza.lib”, and now the music will look good with the corrected stem connections.

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