I'm creating some sheet music in Pages and found a treble clef in Shapes, but I am unable to find a bass clef. Does anyone know how to get a bass clef for Pages?
Mac Studio, macOS 15.2
ctc123 wrote:
Does anyone know how to get a bass clef for Pages?
Apple has these symbols in the Apple Symbols font, findable with Character Viewer, but they may not suit your needs as well as an image.
Use emoji and symbols on Mac - Apple Support
Apple does not include any music-centric font with the operating system. You can add a Bass Clef shape by visiting the Wikipedia site for the Bass Clef and opening the original SVG image in Safari. You then perform a Save as… and use Page Source as the output format with the extension .svg. Thus, you will have Bass_clef.svg on your Desktop.
Then drag and drop onto your Pages document, and while still selected, you visit Format menu > Shapes and Lines > Break Apart. That removes the score lines leaving just the Bass Clef. Right-click on it and from the secondary menu, choose Save to My Shapes. That opens the Shapes panel with the Bass Clef added and you name it Bass Clef. Remove the Bass Clef object that you dropped on Pages earlier.
Since Apple does not include a music notation font in macOS, you might consider one of the free for personal use fonts available for this purpose — unless you plan to sell your Pages sheet music. Put that font into your /Users/username/Library/Fonts folder as you cannot install it into the System fonts location.
Outstanding Viking OSX! Thank you!
Good idea VikingOSX. Thanks.
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How to do a Bass Clef in Pages
