Re: New Musescore

[Brent Annable]

Hi Everyone,

Can anybody tell me how to actually use the new Leland font in lilypond? I went to the GitHub link and downloaded all the files, but as far as I can tell there are no Leland-11, Leland-13, Leland-14, etc. files. I downloaded the available .otf anyway, and when I tried to compile a Lilypond file the log said 'cannot find Leland-11'. How do I actually do this?

Regards,

Brent.

On Sat, 23 Jan 2021 at 07:56, Xavier Scheuer <x.scheuer@gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 at 19:44, Noeck <noeck.marburg@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> FYI: The new MuseScore version 3.6 comes with a new default music font
> and text font.
>
> https://musescore.org/de/node/315523
>
> There is a sample image in this article
> https://gnulinux.ch/neue-version-von-musescore

This is super interesting, thanks for the information.

After making inquiries I would like to add that the new music font is called Leland in tribute to Leland Smith, the creator of the SCORE application. It is available in SMuFL format and under the OFL license.

The text font is based on New Century Schoolbook and is also released under OFL license.

For a quick overview of these fonts you can watch the Musescore 3.6 presentation video and for a more detailed explanation of the origin of the design of the new music font the video of Tantacrul "How I Designed a Free Music Font for 5 Million Musicians (MuseScore 3.6)".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLR40BGNy68

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGo4PJd1lng

In short, there are many reasons to be happy about this, since it can be reused in LilyPond.

Cc lilypond-devel as these fonts under OFL as well as these design explanations could trigger some discussions for LilyPond as well, I think.

Cheers,

Xavier

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Xavier Scheuer <x.scheuer@gmail.com>