#Dorico font how to

The same is true for text entered into Text Frames. When I enter text directly into the music in Write mode using Text Input, for which I can use the key command Shift+X, this Text Formatting Popover appears, allowing me to style the text on an individual basis. How about I increase the font size even more? You can see how this is updated immediately in the music.

See how this style is inheriting the font-family Arial, but all other properties are being overwritten. Let’s open the Font Style dialog one more time and this time choose the Rehearsal Mark Font. I can toggle this switch to overwrite the font-family and choose everybody’s favorite font. If I open the Font Styles dialog again and choose the Chorus Lyrics Font, you can see how the style is inheriting almost everything from the Default Text Font, it’s just also setting the italic property. It’s easy to override the font-family for speciﬁc styles. To illustrate what happens when you change the font for this Default Text style, let set this to Arial and press OK.Īll of these items that inherit from the Default Text Font Style are now drawing using Arial. Opening this popup menu at the top of the dialog shows you the list of font styles that you can modify.īar Number Font, Chord Symbols Altered Bass Separator Font, Chord Symbols Font, Chord Symbols Text Font, Chorus Lyrics Font, Chorus Lyrics Translation Font, Default Music Font, Default Music Text Font, Default Text Font, Default Music Text Font, Dynamic Music Text Font, Dynamic Text Font, Fingering Font, Fingering Horn Branch Accidental Font, Fingering Horn Branch Alto Text Font, Fingering Horn Branch Text Font, Fingering Text Font, Glissando Line Text Font, Gradual Tempo Text Font, Immediate Tempo Text Font, Lyrics Font, Lyrics Translation Font, Metronome Music Text Font, Metronome Text Font, Multirest Tacet Font, Notehead, Page Number Font, Pedal Line Font, Playing Technique Font, Print Metadata Font, Print Watermark Font, Rehearsal Mark Font, Repeat Endings Font, Time Signature Font, Tuplet FontĪll the text-based styles inherit properties from the Default Text Font, so let’s select that to see what’s available.īy default, the font-family is set to Academico, a font designed speciﬁcally for Dorico by Daniel Spreadbury.

#Dorico font how to

Hi, I’m Anthony Hughes, and in this video I will be showing you how to control and modify text styles here in Steinberg’s new music notation software, Dorico.Īs you enter music into Dorico, you will notice that many of the musical objects you create contain text elements, such as in this tempo object,ĭorico gives you complete control over the font styles used in each of these items in: Engrave mode, via the Font Styles dialog found in the Engrave menu. Presented here in written form with the kind permission of its creator, Anthony Hughes, this tutorial is titled “How to Work with Text Styles in Dorico”… 🎬 This article is a transcription of one of the excellent tutorial videos posted to the official Dorico YouTube channel.