7.3.2 Font selection

By setting the object properties described below, you can select a font from the preconfigured font families. LilyPond has default support for the feta music fonts and TeX's Computer Modern text fonts.

• font-encoding is a symbol that sets layout of the glyphs. Choices include ec for TeX EC font encoding, fetaBraces (for piano staff braces), fetaMusic (the standard music font, including ancient glyphs), fetaDynamic (for dynamic signs) and fetaNumber for the number font.
• font-family is a symbol indicating the general class of the typeface. Supported are roman (Computer Modern), sans, and typewriter.
• font-shape is a symbol indicating the shape of the font, there are typically several font shapes available for each font family. Choices are italic, caps, and upright.
• font-series is a symbol indicating the series of the font. There are typically several font series for each font family and shape. Choices are medium and bold.

Fonts selected in the way sketched above come from a predefined style sheet.

The font used for printing a object can be selected by setting font-name, e.g.

\override Staff.TimeSignature
    #'font-name = #"cmr17"

Any font can be used, as long as it is available to TeX. Possible fonts include foreign fonts or fonts that do not belong to the Computer Modern font family. The size of fonts selected in this way can be changed with the font-magnification property. For example, 2.0 blows up all letters by a factor 2 in both directions.

See also

Init files: ly/declarations-init.ly contains hints how new fonts may be added to LilyPond.

Other languages: English.
Using automatic language selection.