Add support for the 'Sebastian' SMuFL font (MuseScore 4)

• Nov 10, 2024 - 11:18

Sebastian is a music font that looks similar to older printed music. It is alike Bravura, however is thinner, and overall (in my opinion) looks nicer.

The github page is here: https://github.com/fkretlow/sebastian/blob/master/README.md

The font is under the SIL Open Font license.

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• Nov 10, 2024 - 15:55

MuseScore can only built in free fonts.
Loading external fonts have the disadvantage to potentially not be available on a PC other than the score creator's, and in case of commercial fonts not on musescore.com.
Still the ability to load external fonts seems a good idea (and 3.7 proves that being possible), along with building in a selected few extra ones.

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• Feb 19, 2025 - 23:35

I LOVE LOVE LOVE the look on this font. Makes me feel far more at home than the standard fonts available in the current build of MS. Growing up playing classical music in my youth symphony, this is a lot easier on the eyes imo.

The only thing I might ask, if it's even possible, is for a sort of subtle photocopy "distressed" look on the staves and making the ends of naked stave lines rounded instead of square, like is often seen with this sort of printing. I don't know how to make fonts, so I'm not telling you what to do by any means, it's my only thought on the font, and again, I don't even know if that's possible.

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