Chord Symbol Fonts

• Jul 24, 2019 - 13:25

When I change the chord symbol font (Format - Style - Text Styles - Chord Symbol) the accidentals in the chord name do not appear in the new chosen font: chords.jpeg
In (Format - Style - Chord Symbols - Appearance) the "Standard" button is chosen.
Please advise. Thank you for your time.


Comments

Sample score needed. My guess is you enter the chord symbols wrongly, using a flat sign rather than a a plain b (which MuseScore then turns into a proper flat, matching the font)?
What font did you pick? And why not Format - Style - Chord Symbols - Appearance > Jazz?

Your font needs to have a glyph in the official Unicode / SMuFL codepoints. My guess is that this is the Jazz font designed for Finale, which I don't think it is fully compliant. So the flat sign is being substituted from another font. You should be able to create a customized chord description file to tell MuseScore where to find the flat sign.

In reply to by Marc Sabatella

Thank you for your comment - you are indeed correct. I'm trying to use the Jazz fonts from Finale, the only accurate rendering of the Real Book look that I know of. I know very little of font rendering programming. I did find a font description file on GitHub (https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/blob/master/share/styles/jazzcho…) in which I changed the font family name from "MuseJazz" to "Jazz" which produced some interesting results when loaded, but nothing actually useful to a musician. If you have any information on how one creates such a customized chord description file, I would be grateful. Thank you once again for your time.

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