Description

[macOS & Windows]

Vintage Plate FOR DORICO & FINALE V27 FEATURE 3 SMUFL COMPLIANT MUSIC FONTS: “Vintage Plate”, “Vintage Plate STD” & “Vintage Plate Light”.

Vintage Plate fonts are elegant engraver music fonts with Standard, Heavy, and Lighter appearances. They’re more robust than some other music fonts but more accurately represent a vintage look of smooth music notation. Vintage Plate fonts are suitable for modern sophisticated Pop, Rock, Jazz, Piano, Vocals, Choirs, Marching Bands, and all types of musical ensembles, even Symphonies. They have a unique subtle individuality with a softer and fatter look, making them great for school manuals and education materials. Both fonts look fun and easy, so they won’t scare students. Vintage Plate fonts work with Finale v27 and Dorico™ Pro as an alternative to Finale Maestro and Bravura fonts, or any other SMuFL font.

PDF SAMPLES

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• Vintage Plate – Au Tombeau de Rachmaninoff
• Vintage Plate – ÉTUDES TRANSCENDANTALES
• Vintage Plate – IV. Adagio
• Vintage Plate – Nocturne in E♭ Major
• Vintage Plate – Suite

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• Vintage Plate Light – Au Tombeau de Rachmaninoff
• Vintage Plate Light – ÉTUDES TRANSCENDANTALES
• Vintage Plate Light – IV. Adagio
• Vintage Plate Light – Nocturne in E♭ Major
• Vintage Plate Light – Suite

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• Vintage Plate STD – Au Tombeau de Rachmaninoff
• Vintage Plate STD – ÉTUDES TRANSCENDANTALES
• Vintage Plate STD – IV. Adagio
• Vintage Plate STD – Nocturne in E♭ Major
• Vintage Plate STD – Suite

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INSTALLING PLATE FONTS

Installing Vintage Plate fonts is simple since they come with four installers: one for macOS and three for Windows.

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APPLYING VINTAGE PLATE FONTS IN DORICO™ PRO

When running Dorico, it finds new metadata files and adds the fonts to its list of available SMuFL fonts. To use the Vintage Plate fonts, follow these steps:

• Open a Dorico score,
• Click on the Library > Music Fonts 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 Vintage Plate, Vintage Plate STD or Vintage Plate Light to apply the font to your open score project
• Again, Library > Font Styles… > Font Style to “Default Music Text Font” choose: Vintage Plate / Vintage Plate STD / Vintage Plate Light
• You’d need also to change the character style: Library > Character Styles… > set Font to Bravura Text
• 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 Vintage Plate / Vintage Plate STD / Vintage Plate Light font.  
• Go to Library > Paragraph Styles > Default Text font to Old Music Standard font. Another enhanced version is here.
• You can also use two extra treble clefs (letter A and C) that are slightly tilted to the right. We also added a regular note-head (letter B) you can access it through NoteHeads Set.

         

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Changing the Music Font in Finale v27

Go to Document > Set Default Music Font… select Vintage Plate, Vintage Plate STD or Vintage Plate Light 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.