Introducing Lelandia, a new suite of music fonts for Sibelius

May 5, 2023

Lelandia is a newly created music font available for use in Sibelius that you can get from Notation Central. Lelandia was migrated from Leland, which is the default music font used in newer versions of MuseScore. Leland is inspired by the look of the SCORE engraving program, created by Leland Smith.

Scoring Express templates for Sibelius

December 12, 2020

Scoring Express is a collection of professional templates for Sibelius based on the same templates used at NYC Music Services. Each Scoring Express package contains manuscript papers, house styles, music and text fonts, and plug-ins — all installed in one go.

Change Sibelius’s color scheme

October 7, 2020

You can customize your color scheme in Sibelius in lots of ways — including making it resemble another software product entirely, if you like.

Small update to Norfolk Text font for Sibelius; more planned

August 10, 2020

The Norfolk Text font for Sibelius is updated with the same numerals in the most current version of the Bravura font, for a more consistent appearance both internally and with other applications that use Bravura. This is most noticeable on tuplets.

A fount of fonts at Notation Central

May 4, 2020

When it comes to making your score look exactly the way you want, the right fonts can make all the difference. At Notation Central, you'll find music and text fonts from a variety of foundries that are up to the task.

2019: A year in review

December 23, 2019

Wow, what a year it has been! It's time once again to reflect on the past year on Scoring Notes and in the world of music notation software and related technology — and to look forward to what's ahead.

Update to angled slash chord fonts for Sibelius: new baseline, Scandinavian support, more

June 4, 2019

The Norfolk and Pori angled slash chord (ASC) fonts for Sibelius have been updated so that they are as easy as possible to use while adding even more features for power users. The baseline of the ASC fonts will better align with non-slashed chords, Scandinavian and Nashville Number System support is also added, and there are a number of other new features for chords in legacy mode.

Major updates to Pori and Norfolk fonts for Sibelius

April 10, 2019

Major updates to the Pori and Norfolk fonts for Sibelius are here. The full Pori suite — the Sibelius-compatible derivative of Steinberg's Petaluma handwritten font — is now available. There are more angled slash chord symbol fonts for Pori and Norfolk, and lots of other goodies, too.

Norfolk fonts for Sibelius updated

March 27, 2018

Available for free from the Resources page on our NYC Music Services web site, the Norfolk family of fonts has been updated to correct several issues. The Norfolk family of fonts is a derivative of the beautiful Bravura font that has been expressly reconfigured to work within Sibelius.