SMuFL

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SMuFL
Standard Music Font Layout
First published31 January 2013 [1]
Latest version1.4 [2]
20 March 2021 [2]
Organization W3C [2]
CommitteeW3C Music Notation Community Group [2]
EditorsDaniel Spreadbury [1]
LicenseW3C Community Final Specification Agreement [1] [3]
Website www.smufl.org OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

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]

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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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