The Ekmelos Font

Ekmelos is a music font compliant with SMuFL.
It includes over 3000 glyphs – clefs, note heads, accidentals, articulations, playing techniques, etc. The focus is on the numerous accidentals for microtonal music, particularly for use along with Ekmelily (see LilyPond Support) which initiated the development of Ekmelos.

The Ekmelos Font Software is a family consisting of four fonts:

  • Ekmelos
  • Ekmelos 12-EDO
  • Ekmelos 24-EDO
  • Ekmelos 72-EDO

The N-EDO fonts are extracts including mainly accidentals for the respective EDO, intended for use on Web pages (e.g. with ekmelib) to reduce the download volume.

LilyPond Support

Extensions for LilyPond that facilitate the use of glyphs from Ekmelos and other SMuFL compliant fonts:

  • Ekmelily
    … supports variable accidentals and key signatures for the notation of microtonal music in several tunings: 24, 31, 36, 72-EDO, et al.
  • Esmuflily
    … supports other music symbols: clefs, note heads, flags, articulations, etc.

Author and License

Ekmelos was written by Thomas Richter, thomas-richteraonat
created with FontForge.

Copyright © 2013-2026 Thomas Richter,
with Reserved Font Name “Ekmelos”.

This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
This license is available with a FAQ in the files LICENSE.txt and OFL-FAQ.txt, and at scripts.sil.org/OFL.