Published May 28, 2015
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Standard Music Font Layout (SMuFL)
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Digital typefaces containing the symbols used in Western common music notation have been in use for 30 years, but the development of the repertoire of symbols that are included, their assignment to code points, and design considerations such as glyph metrics and registration, have been rather ad hoc. The Standard Music Font Layout (SMuFL) establishes guidelines for all of these areas, and a reference implementation is available in the Bravura font family. Software developers and font designers alike are beginning to develop implementations of SMuFL in their products, and benefits including easier data interchange, interoperability of fonts with a variety of software packages, are already being felt.