Hershey Text

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Hershey Text is an Inkscape extension for rendering text with engraving fonts. Versions have been included as part of standard Inkscape distributions since version 0.91.

A new version, Hershey Text v 3.0, has been included in Inkscape, starting with Inkscape 1.0.

Please read this article at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories for a general introduction to stroke fonts and Hershey Text.

Please see our SVG font repository for more about the individual fonts included with the distribution.


Hershey Text User Guide[edit]

A complete user guide for Hershey Text is available for download here (1 MB PDF document).


Installation[edit]

Install Inkscape 1.0 or newer; you should find Hershey Text in the Extensions > Text menu.

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