FontForge file for creating new SMuFL font?

Dorico
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Hi there,

Apologies if this has already been answered. I’m in the early stages of creating a new SMuFL compliant font and I’m wondering if there’s a FontForge .sfd file for Bravura that I can use as an easy reference (so I can simply delete and replace each symbol one-by-one). This feels like an obvious way to proceed.

If the .sfd file isn’t available, does anyone have a suggestion about an alternative way to set up?

Thanks a lot!

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No (at least not public)

Load the bravura otf file in FontForge and save it as sfd :wink:

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The beginning of Leland perhaps?

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Leland is based more upon SCORE than Bravura, right?

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Exactly. The core set of Leland was modelled on SCORE and the rest of the set was then built out to be consistent with that core set (SCORE was missing quite a few symbols).

Since Bravura is the SMuFL reference font, I needed to study it at the time to learn how glyphs needed to be arranged in order to be compliant with the spec.

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It’s all here, the specification in detail, is it not?

https://w3c.github.io/smufl/latest/index.html

Good idea to start with Bravura. I assume this a new font for MuseScore?

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This is a 2.5yo thread. Leland (the new font) was released quite some time ago, and Martin made a video all about it at the time.

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@Romanos didn’t notice! There were posts from just a few hours ago. Fooled me.

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This is one of those

moments.

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Yes that’s what I thought :slight_smile: sorry Martin - now that your super identity’s been revealed I was just curious to know whether you’d been active elsewhere on the forum. Good work on Musescore 4 :slight_smile: