Changing the default text font family

The default font families for text can be overridden with make-pango-font-tree.

Note: Starting with LilyPond 2.25.4, font selection works differently; the most usual cases can be handled by convert-ly. See the ‘Notation’ manual for more information.

\version "2.24"

%{
You may have to install additional fonts.

Red Hat Fedora: dejavu-fonts-all

Debian GNU/Linux, Ubuntu: fonts-dejavu-core
                          fonts-dejavu-extra
%}

\paper {
  % change for a different default global staff size
  myStaffSize = #20

  %{
     run
         lilypond -dshow-available-fonts
     to show all fonts available in the process log.
  %}
  #(define fonts
    (make-pango-font-tree "DejaVu Serif"
                          "DejaVu Sans"
                          "DejaVu Sans Mono"
     (/ myStaffSize 20)))
}

{
  g'''4^\markup {
    DejaVu Serif: \bold bold
                  \italic italic
                  \italic \bold { bold italic }
  }
  g4_\markup {
    \override #'(font-family . sans) {
      DejaVu Sans: \bold bold
                   \italic italic
                   \italic \bold { bold italic }
    }
  }
  g''2^\markup {
    \override #'(font-family . typewriter) {
      DejaVu Sans Mono: \bold bold
                        \italic italic
                        \italic \bold { bold italic }
    }
  }
}