What’s wrong with the Leland Font in MuseScore?

[benwiggy]

there's also Sebastian (by the aforementioned benwiggy) which is based on mid-century plate engraved scores and has a color somewhere in between Maestro and Bravura IMO. I don't believe it comes with MuseScore, but it is available on GitHub and I'm sure Ben or someone else could tell you how to get it to work in MuseScore.

The latest build should work ok on MuseScore, but I do need to tidy up a few issues, because of the way MuseScore works (for instance, it assembles from and , rather than using the combined glyph.)

[frames]

for example, by choosing the right text font that complements the music font.

So many pay close attention to the fonts, when on the other hand they neglect the true secrets of the music engraving.

The text font can make a huge difference to a score’s appearance and feel, and while I do love playing with music fonts (and have way too many installed on my computer), it is easy to get caught up in trying different music fonts when things like text size, note spacing, staff spacing, casting off, and page layout can arguably have a bigger impact on how good a score/part looks.

EDIT: I should also add that what looks good on a screen doesn't necessarily look good on a printed page placed a couple feet away from the performer.

[LSL2026]

Here is an example with "p".

Thanks for sharing that page. Looks good.

You’re right of course - I mean even the staff line thickness makes a difference and finding that visual balance - no matter what the font, is important.

I feel like my old scores using Maestro looked really good when I had adjusted all the line thicknesses. I just haven’t been able to recapture that with MuseScore - and I never really liked the Maestro flags so I’m trying to solve those problems now.

[LSL2026]

The latest build should work ok on MuseScore, but I do need to tidy up a few issues, because of the way MuseScore works (for instance, it assembles from and , rather than using the combined glyph.)

Yes, I guess you missed my other response - I have it, and it works, and it looks great.

I mentioned there were a few nit-picky things I didn’t like about it but I find that true of all fonts.

I’d have to learn how to edit a smufl font to create a compilation of the symbols I’d like - that’s probably beyond my ken at the moment but it’s on the list of things I’d like to learn.

If I could use Maestro’s Time Signature Numerals, and Staccato Dots, within Leland, I’d be pretty happy. I’d probably want to find the right set of accidentals to use, I’d be golden. At least until MS starts allowing more control over individual elements.

[odod]

As I recall, there was also a font called Scorlatti also mimic the Partita font, CMIIW

[OCTO]

I feel like my old scores using Maestro looked really good when I had adjusted all the line thicknesses. I just haven’t been able to recapture that with MuseScore - and I never really liked the Maestro flags so I’m trying to solve those problems now.

I have done a score in Finale with Maestro with 400 pages. It was a larger operatic work, and I work with several copyists. First I wanted to use "very clever font setup" which finally I abandoned, since my copyists worked on windows and I on Mac.
The problem was that haveing super-custom fonts of everything makes it very hard to collaborate on, and very hard to re-use (like in 15 years when I loose fonts or so).

I ended up with following:
Maestro - for music.
MyCustomFont - for extra symbols not found in Maestro, such as personal ornaments, graphical symbols, multiphonic charts, and so on. I have done it in FontForge. This is the only font that needed to be updated during the time.
Emboldened Times New Roman - and this was the true most important part of the score, it looked punchy, stable and very compact. Example here
Very tiny text fonts are really damaging the readiness (such as Garamond). Here is the font, not perfect but it worked well: viewtopic.php?t=21