Where do the fonts live?
Hello. I'm interested in making some modifications to the music symbols and music text fonts, in order to make my lead sheets more readable on the bandstand. I don't have any prior font editing experience, but I'm gonna give this a go.
I've installed FontForge, and now I'm trying to figure out where the Bravura, Emmentaler, and Gonville fonts are located on my hard drive so that I can experiment with changing some of the glyphs. I can't seem to find them. Also, once I've created a new font, how can I instruct MuseScore to use my font instead of one of the pre-supplied fonts?
Thanks!
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The musical fonts are not accessible, they are embedded in the MuseScore binary, so you would have to recompile MuseScore with your changes... It's possible but maybe there is another way to get what you want.
What do you want to change in the fonts exactly?
In reply to The musical fonts are not… by [DELETED] 5
Hm, that sounds inconvenient. Yes, perhaps it would be simpler to save the printed output as PostScript and modify the PostScript file to switch the font.
Well, at the moment the main thing I want to change are some of the articulation marks. I find that the tenuto mark, for example, is too thin; I'd like to make it bolder, so that it's more visible to musicians sight-reading on the bandstand. I'm sure that once I get going, though, I'll want to keep tweaking things. :)
In reply to Hm, that sounds inconvenient… by Solomon Douglas
If you really do this, I would advise to copy the font and give another name and then add it to your own MuseScore build. Also you might want to check one of the master development build with the jazz font, it might suit your needs https://musescore.org/en/node/137146
In reply to If you really do this, I… by [DELETED] 5
Of course I would copy and rename it.
This sounds like a rabbit hole that I'm not sure I want to fall into though... Having my own custom build of the app sounds like it might cause me more headaches than it would resolve. :)