SMuFL

Short description: Open standard for music font mapping

SMuFLStandard 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]
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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 ), 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:

* MuseScore from version 2.0 in 2015[11]
* Dorico from version 1.0.0 in 2016[4]
* Finale from version 27 in 2021[12]

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Standard Music Font Layout (SMuFL) specification". W3C. https://github.com/w3c/smufl.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "Music Notation Community Group". W3C. https://www.w3.org/community/music-notation/.
3. ↑ "W3C Community Final Specification Agreement". W3C. https://www.w3.org/community/about/process/final/.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 "SMuFL: Standard Music Font Layout". Steinberg. https://www.smufl.org.
5. ↑ "A brief history of music fonts". W3C. 2021-03-16. https://www.w3.org/2021/03/smufl14/about/brief-history.html.
6. ↑ "Cleo Huggins - Font type designer". Adobe. https://www.adobe.com/products/type/font-designers/cleo-huggins.html.
7. ↑ "Software with SMuFL support". Steinberg. 18 May 2015. http://www.smufl.org/software/.
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "SMuFL-compliant music fonts". Steinberg. 13 May 2013. https://www.smufl.org/fonts/.
9. ↑ Spreadbury, Daniel (2013-05-23). "Introducing Bravura, the new music font". dorico.com (Press release). Steinberg. Retrieved 2021-06-24.
10. ↑ "Bravura music font". W3C. https://github.com/steinbergmedia/bravura.
11. ↑ "What's new in MuseScore 2". MuseScore BVBA. 2015-03-23. https://musescore.org/en/whats-new-musescore-2.
12. ↑ "Finale v27 Is Here!". finalemusic.com (Press release). MakeMusic. 2021-06-15. Retrieved 2021-06-24.

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