I like the Arial Unicode MS best so far because they look pretty good and they are spaced well. Some fonts have decent versions of these symbols, and others look terrible. It might be a little tricky to set up, but it is worth it! That’s how I typed this! This is great, because you don’t have to keep switching back and forth to a notation software font, and it doesn’t mess with your vertical spacing. I recently discovered that many fonts actually have ♯’s ♭’s and ♮’s already built in – no need to use a music font. Well, the solution is actually pretty simple. Then there is the natural, for which you can do nothing other than spell it out. I will show you two helpful tools that I use to create worksheets for my students.ĭo you regularly use the number sign ‘#’ for sharps like ‘F#’, and a lower case ‘b’ for flats like ‘Bb’? They can pass, but the lower case ‘b’ confuses students, and the number sign slants to the right, unlike a sharp which is upright. Fortunately, there are some fonts that are designed with teachers in mind. If you have notation software, you have probably found that the fonts designed for them are practically useless in a word processor.

But I thought I’d take a break from schoolwork and do a ‘quick’ post on the music fonts I use for my classroom materials. I haven’t posted in a while… it’s spring – rehearsal, concert and exam season.

Have you ever found yourself needing to use musical symbols or notation in your word processor? If you are a music teacher like me who likes to make up worksheets and tests on your computer, then you know how fussy and next to impossible that can be.

Music fonts for microsoft word