Staff label fonts

Staff label use paragraph styles to format their fonts, including their alignment and formatting. When staff labels are split, such as when the instrument name and instrument number have different vertical positions, you can format each part separately.

In Dorico, there are three default paragraph styles for staff labels:

• Staff Labels

  The default style used for staff labels that have the instrument name and number aligned and together. It is also used for the group labels on divisi staves and for instrument names aligned between multiple identical instruments.

• Staff Labels (Inner)

  Used for individual staves within divisi groups and for instrument numbers when instrument names are aligned between multiple identical instruments.

• Staff Labels (Percussion Grid)

  Used for percussion kits in layouts using the grid presentation.

You can edit each paragraph style independently of each other, for example, if you want outer staff labels to be left-aligned but inner staff labels to be right-aligned, in the Paragraph Styles dialog.