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Eugene

A free music font inspired by hand-engraved French scores from 1900

About

Eugene is a free music font inspired by the hand-engraved scores of Parisian publishers. It is named after Eugène Fromont — the house that first published Debussy's Suite Bergamasque in 1905.

The font reproduces the visual character of early 20th-century French music engraving.

Eugene is a SMuFL-compliant OpenType font, compatible with Dorico, MuseScore and any other scoring app that supports SMuFL fonts. Glyphs not yet designed in Eugene fall back to Bravura.

See list of all included glyphs.

The font is developed and maintained by Mikko Patama. You can support the project by buying him a coffee or contributing on GitHub.

Eugene is released under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

Prélude from Suite Bergamasque engraved with Eugene font
Prélude from Suite Bergamasque, Debussy — engraved with Eugene

May Day Remedy by Mikko Patama engraved with Eugene font

PDF Samples

Eugene Sample Scores - big PDF

Download

Eugene 1.311
Includes Eugene.otf · EugeneText.otf · Eugene.json metadata · installers for Windows and macOS
Download latest release View on GitHub

Windows installer (.exe) and macOS installer (.pkg) are available in the release assets for one-click installation.

Installation

Dorico 4 / 5 / 6

  1. Download the latest release and run Eugene-macOS-1.311.pkg (macOS) or Eugene-Win-1.311.exe (Windows). The installer copies all files to the correct locations automatically.
  2. Restart Dorico completely after installation.
  3. In Dorico, go to Library → Music Fonts and select Eugene from the list. Click Apply and Close.

MuseScore Studio 4

  1. Download the latest release and run Eugene-macOS-1.311.pkg (macOS) or Eugene-Win-1.311.exe (Windows). The installer copies all files to the correct locations automatically.
  2. Restart MuseScore Studio after installation.
  3. Go to Format → Style → Score and set Musical symbols font to Eugene and Musical text font to Eugene Text.

MuseScore Evolution

  1. Download the latest release
  2. Locate your MuseScore MusicFonts folder:
    macOS: ~/Documents/MuseScore3/MusicFonts/
    Windows: %USERPROFILE%\Documents\MuseScore3\MusicFonts
  3. Inside the MusicFonts folder, create a subfolder named Eugene and copy Eugene.otf and EugeneText.otf inside the folder.
  4. Copy Eugene.json into the same subfolder, but rename it to metadata.json. MuseScore Evolution requires this exact filename.
  5. Restart MuseScore Evolution.
  6. Go to Format → Style → Score and set Musical symbols font to Eugene and Musical text font to Eugene Text.

Manual Installation

If you prefer to install manually without the installer scripts, copy the files to these locations:

Font files

macOS: ~/Library/Fonts/
Windows: C:\Windows\Fonts\

SMuFL metadata (Dorico and MuseScore 4)

macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/SMuFL/Fonts/Eugene/ and ~/Library/Application Support/SMuFL/Fonts/EugeneStrong/
Windows: %COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\SMuFL\Fonts\Eugene\ and %COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\SMuFL\Fonts\EugeneStrong\

MuseScore fonts folder

macOS: ~/Documents/MuseScore4/MusicFonts/Eugene/ and ~/Documents/MuseScore4/MusicFonts/EugeneStrong/
Windows: %USERPROFILE%\Documents\MuseScore4\MusicFonts\Eugene\ and %USERPROFILE%\Documents\MuseScore4\MusicFonts\EugeneStrong\

The Eugene/ subfolder name must match the font name exactly (case-sensitive on macOS). Copy both Eugene.otf, EugeneText.otf, and Eugene.json into each folder.

Status

625
Designed glyphs
1.311
Current version

Credits and acknowledgements

Created by Mikko Patama. Visual source material from the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica).

SMuFL specification is maintained by W3C Music Notation Community Group.

GitHub Contributors: Jojo-Schmitz and urkkiz225.

Special thanks to Dorico and MuseScore forum users for testing and pointing out bugs.