235: Music fonts - which fonts does Sibelius use?

Sibelius and Scorch both install a number of music fonts designed specifically for use in the software. These fonts consist of two families: Opus is a traditional engraved font family, including hundreds of symbols for e.g. percussion, accordion music, and so on; Inkpen2 is a handwritten-style font family, including a complete script font for text, chord symbols, and hundreds of symbols for jazz and commercial music.Reprise – introduced in Sibelius 5 – is the latest in our growing range of elegant fonts. In fact, Reprise is a whole family of 9 fonts that produce an astonishingly realistic simulation of handcopying. Its music symbols are drawn with a fixed-width nib (rather than the italic nib used in Inkpen2), and additionally it includes two rubber-stamp fonts for titles and other large text.

These fonts are supplied in both TrueType and Adobe Type 1 (PostScript) formats, and can be embedded in EPS and PDF files for publishing.

Sibelius is also compatible with most other music fonts, including Petrucci, Sonata, Seville, Ghent, Maestro and so on.