These fonts are totally free of charge, and you may redistribute them as long as you don’t host them on another website. A great list of music font links (as well as other music links) is available from Gerd Castan: http://www.music-notation.info/en/compmus/musicfonts.html.
FiguredBassMH font
This figured bass font was created to ease entry of figured bass symbols in applications such as Finale or Microsoft Word.
Download this font for Mac or Windows
StaffClefPitchesEasy
A font enabling you to put pitch material - staff, clefs, pitches and barlines - onto any page using any application. This can be entered in a word processing document (for a thesis or assignment or so forth).
Download this font for Mac Windows
Rhythms
A font enabling you to put rhythmic notation - including rhythmic values, time signatures, tuplet markings, barlines - onto any page using any application. This can be entered in a word processing document (for a thesis or assignment or so forth). Not as many characters as the Bach font, but easier to use and can do things that the Bach font can’t. (Documentation fixed 21 July 2004)
Download this font for Mac Windows
Accidentals font
A font containing quartertones and other microtones in addition to the standard chromatic accidental symbols. Intended for use with Finale. Contains a Finale 2002 document from which a library of microtone symbols can be extracted for use as articulations.
Download this font for Mac Windows
If you are interested in other microtonal fonts, check out the following: Sagittal font by Dave Keenan and George Secor
Tempera font by Christian Textier (or click here for a really bad Google translation of this page)
Clefs
A wider range of clefs for Finale including tablature clefs, both serif and sans serif.
Download this font for Mac Windows
Tempo Indications Font
A font for easily writing metronome markings and basic metric modulations.
(1) based on Times font (serif)
Download this font for Mac Windows
(2) based on Trebuchet MS font (sans serif)
Download this font for Mac Windows
Harp Pedals Font
A font to easily create harp pedal diagrams (3 styles): including —+—-, ^^-+^-v- styles as well as note names with accidentals.
Download this font for Mac OS X Windows
Recorder Fingering Font
A font useful for putting in recorder fingering diagrams. There are easy presets, and you can also notate your own fingering by specifying each individual hole.
Download this font for Mac Windows
Saxophone Fingering Font
This font is used for entering saxophone fingering diagrams, and includes a purely graphical representation + 2 others which are combinations of graphics and text.
Download this font for Mac Windows
Guitar Strings
A simple font that allows you to put circled numbers into a document (such as a Finale file). The numbers 1-6 are included, in both serif and sans-serif forms.
Download this font (Mac and PC versions included)
Times+Musical Symbols
A Times Roman font which includes a variety of musical symbols, including accidentals, time signatures and so on incorporated with standard text characters. In theory you should be able to write an entire thesis using this font, though some of the kernings are a little wonky for my taste - though each to their own.
Download this font for Mac only
Tuplet Numbers font
This font gives better looking tuplet numbers in Finale. Both Petrucci-based and Sonata-based versions are included.
Download this font for Mac Windows
Other Good Fonts
Here are some links to other good music fonts created by other people.
If you design fonts, and want me to link to them, get in contact with me via the contact page.
http://myke.trecento.com/fonts/ - contains fonts for clarinet fingering and also for notation of 14th century music.
Staffwriter font - Not free, but a font which is designed to put musical characters into word processing and other text documents. It has a lot of symbols in it - many more than my free fonts above. It is available through http://www.macmusicfonts.com/.