9. The Score

Fonts and themes

How the score looks is in three places: each Score pane picks its music font and its theme, for you on this screen; the song’s style, in Score Setup, picks the fonts of its words, for every page and everyone who opens it.

Music fonts and themes

Available on every platform.

Music font

The music font draws the notes, clefs, rests and marks. In a Score pane’s ⚙, Music Font has three:

• Bravura: the classic engraved look, and the default.
• Leland: rounder, as MuseScore engraves.
• Petaluma: handwritten, as a jazz chart or a copyist’s part.

Each pane keeps its own, so two panes can show the same music in two fonts. A PDF exported from a pane uses that pane’s music font (Exporting the Score as PDF).

Score Theme

Score Theme, in the same menu, is the page and ink on screen:

• Workspace: the app’s own light or dark.
• Paper, the default, and Sepia: a warm page with a fine grain, which scrolls with the music.
• Classic: black on white.
• Dark, Midnight Blue, Solarized Light and Solarized Dark.

Each theme has its own colours for the staff lines, the notes lit as they play, the playhead and the selection. The theme is the pane’s, for reading. A new Score pane starts on the theme chosen in Settings (Paper at first). PDFs are black on white whatever the theme, unless Export PDFs in the Score’s theme is on in Settings: see Exporting the Score as PDF.

The words’ fonts

The words in the score (titles, chord symbols, lyrics, staff text, techniques, tempo and marks) have their fonts in Score Setup’s Text section, each kind with its family, size and face. The families are Serif, Sans, Times, Handwritten and Jazz, each shown in its own face. They’re the song’s, so every pane, every device and the PDFs show them; a presentation can set its own.

A song’s own fonts

Available on every platform.