Description

[MacOS & Windows]

BLUENOTES FONTS FOR DORICO & FINALE V27 FEATURE 2 COMPLIANT SMUFL FONTS AND 6 JAZZY TEXT FONTS.

BlueNotes are handwritten music and text fonts for Dorico & v27 with lots of personality. Nothing else will get you as close to the look and feel of the classic Broadway scores in the style of West Coast copyists. BlueNotes fonts feature more than 1400 music symbols and work as an alternative to Bravura, Petaluma fonts, Finale Maestro, Finale Jazz, or Finale Broadway fonts.

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PDF Samples

• BlueNotes
• BlueNotes II
• BlueNotes IIb
• BlueNotes III
• BlueNotes IIIb
  
• BlueNotes IIIc
• BlueNotes IV
• BlueNotes – REMOTE CONTROL
• Full score – BlueNotes Rhythm Section
• Jazz Guitar – BlueNotes Rhythm Section
• Piano – BlueNotes Rhythm Section
• Acoustic Bass – BlueNotes Rhythm Section
• Drum Set – BlueNotes Rhythm Section

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Boxed Texts

It’s possible to make awesome text boxing in Dorico and Finale v27. In Dorico by setting Default Text Font to: “BlueNotes Alpha” and activating Underline, Overline or both.

 

 

 

Or by typing text combinations

 

 

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Bonus: 4 Different Treble Clefs

BlueNotes fonts feature 4 different treble clefs that you can access through Library/Music Symbols… in Dorico or through Document Options/Clefs/Clef Designer in Finale v27.

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INSTALLING BLUENOTES FONTS

 It’s easy to install BlueNotes fonts since they come with 3 installers, 1 for macOS and 2 for Windows.

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APPLYING BLUENOTES FONTS IN DORICO™ PRO

When running Dorico, it will find the new metadata file and will make an entry for the font in its list of available music fonts. However, to use the BlueNotes font:

• • • Open a Dorico score,
    • Go to Engrave mode (Ctrl+3 or Cmd+3), click on the Engrave > Music Font menu option,
    • In the dialog window that appears, click on the name of the font in the list, then click the button “Change Music Font” and select BlueNotes or BlueNotes II to apply the font to your open score project;
    • You can optionally check or uncheck the box to use the recommended engraving options; click “OK”, and you’ll notice that your score project is taking effect of the changes with the newly selected BlueNotes font.

• • • You might also want to change the ‘Default text’ style in Engrave > Paragraph Styles but also the ‘Default text font’ font style in Engrave > Font Styles to BlueNotes Alpha font and Engrave > Character Styles set Music Text to BlueNotes Text font. 

Note: You can choose ‘BlueNotes II’ font for a different treble clef. You can email-me in order to get 4 .doricolib files that change the look of the treble clefs.

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Changing the Music Font in Finale v27

Go to Document > Set Default Music Font… select BlueNotes or BlueNotes II font and click OK.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Stems connections can be misaligned after converting the default music font to a SMuFL-based font, for more info on how to fix this issue click here.