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Music Fonts

No matter what program or what method for computerized music notation you use, extra music fonts are always useful.

We use mainly the excellent and guitar-friendly MusEdit music notation program, which costs $79 USD. MusEdit does a great job of producing professional looking scores and lead sheets at a very reasonable cost.

Many non-music-readers use the guitarist's tablature notation program Tabledit, which we cannot recommend because of its ugly and semi-illegible staff notation output, which people who don't read music well are seldom aware of!
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For that reason we highly recommend MusEdit, which is capable of staff notation output as nice as Finale or Sibelius, as well as guitar tablature (TAB) and automatic translation functions between TAB and staff notation. MusEdit also permits the use of any symbol from any installed font on your system, musical or otherwise, through the use of staff text boxes which can be placed anywhere on, above, or below a staff or TAB line.

All of the musical examples on this website were created with MusEdit. Some of them have additional material or modifications made in Adobe Illustrator using exported graphics files from MusEdit.

We obtained all of the fonts below from free downloads elsewhere on the internet. We are not aware of any licensing issues connected with any of these fonts. If licensing issues are brought to our attention, we will of course remove them immediately with apologies.

Standard Music Fonts

These four common musical symbol fonts for staff notation are all similar and are in the classical engraving style. Sonora, however, has straight flags on the stand-alone eighths, 16ths, etc, instead of the usual curved flag. The total character set used in music notation is larger than a single font can handle, so all four of these are missing occasional symbols. Musical Symbols has a character for a short length of five-line staff, which can be repeated for creating a whole staff line BUT you will have to reduce the kerning (know what that is?) to eliminate the gap between the characters. We use this for patching scanned scores where the end of the line is gone... a time consuming activity which is only marginally worth it!

Specialty Music Fonts

  • Boxmark
    Boxmark has capital letters in box frames, suitable for rehearsal letters, and a number of other special musical symbols which are sometimes useful.
    Boxmark font.ttf
    Boxmark demo.pdf

  • G-Chords
    G-chords is a complete set of chord symbols, including the circle-with-slash for half diminished, the delta symbol for major seventh, the little circle for diminished chords, slash/letter for bass notes, and pretty much every other chord symbol you can imagine. We have a gif file with all the keystrokes and their output, which you can print out for reference and post above your desk. The gif is missing about 3 symbols, but they may be found in the demo.pdf.
    Gchords font.ttf
    Gchords demo.pdf
    Gchords symbol-key.gif

    G-chords will not work in our version of Adobe Illustrator (version 10.) Why, we don't know! However, we've had good results in Illustrator with all of the standard music fonts above. G-chords works very well in MusEdit.

  • Inkpen
    Inkpen mimics handwritten music and uses the same character set as the common fonts above, plus many more characters, in a total of 6 fonts. The "hand-written look" chord symbols are very nice if you want an informal look something like the "Real Book" series. There are two common symbols that don't match the rest: the Delta (major 7th) and Circle-Slash (half-diminished) symbols lack the hand-written look, the only flaw in this otherwise lovely font set. Our zip file has the fonts plus a .pdf demo for each.
    Inkpen.zip

  • Opus Figured Bass
    The Opus figured bass font is a unique, probably one-of-a-kind font, useful for Baroque music fans. Our zip file includes two fonts and a .pdf demo for each. When you run into classical musicians who don't know their chords, give them a figured bass chart instead, and then you can say condescendingly, "Where did you study, anyway?" when they can't cut that either.
    Opus-Fig-Bass.zip



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