A little summer chat, between two “ploufs” in the pool. Which fonts do you use frequently in Dorico (for the classical repertoire only)? What are your preferences for large orchestral scores, chamber music scores, brass ensembles, etc.? What experience have you gained (limitations or otherwise).

I use Sebastian as a music font because I like the slim look of the notes. I’m also really fond of the clefs and time sigs. But I use Bravura for dynamics, trill signs and other ‘text’ indicators because I prefer the look of those glyphs. I don’t know if people have strong feelings about mixing two …

I love bravura. Every 6 months or so, I’ll have a look at all the other music fonts out there, and then I always come right back. It’s so lovely.

I waffle between Bravura and Sebastian. Right now, I tend to use Bravura for clients and Sebastian for my own music.

I use MTF Cadence, which I prefer over Bravura.

I don’t particularly care for Bravura for whatever reason. I stick with Finale Engraver.

Tank you very much @FredGUnn for this link, very useful. And thank you all for your very useful contributions on this subject. We’ll be continuing all summer long!

Hello! I use Bravura and Finale Maestro for music fonts, mainly due to their aesthetic for choral and chamber music. For text fonts, I use different fonts such as the new Splentino font, as well as Bodoni 72 Oldstyle and EB Garamond. The default text font doesn’t quite seem right to me, for some rea…

I like just about every font mentioned and find it difficult to choose which to use any given moment. I’m kind of love right now with NorFonts’ two vintage fonts (Vintage BH and Vintage Plate). I just love that it makes things look like it’s an old published printing of some kind and it kind of take…

You can actually create a poll in a post for users to vote. A good Discourse feature. Then you can get percentages of usage.

Poll on fonts usage in Dorico

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Speaking of pools … it’s three years old now, but I did a little music font comparison in this thread of the available free fonts plus November 2.