SMuFL

Open standard for music font mapping From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Standard Music Font Layout, or SMuFL, is an open standard for Unicode private use area music font mapping.[4] The standard was originally developed by Daniel Spreadbury of Steinberg for its scorewriter software Dorico,[1][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]

First published31 January 2013[1]
Latest version1.4[2]
20 March 2021[2]
OrganizationW3C[2]
CommitteeW3C Music Notation Community Group[2]
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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 Edit this at Wikidata
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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:

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