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 will be included with Inkscape 1.0.

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

Hershey Text includes several different typefaces. Some are historical faces, the "Hershey Fonts", originally created by Dr. A. V. Hershey while working at the U.S. National Bureau of Standards (now NIST), in the 1960s. Other fonts, the "EMS" series, are modern fonts licensed under the SIL Open Font License, as listed below.


Installation

Hershey Text v 3.0 requires Inkscape version 0.92. For Mac, install Inkscape 0.92.2, and for Windows install Inkscape 0.92.4.

You can download Hershey Text v 3.0 from the repository. To install it manually, copy the two files "hershey.py", "hershey.inx," and the "svg_fonts" directory into your Inkscape extensions folder, replacing any like-named files there.


Included fonts and credits

Engraving font name A derivative of Designer Reference
EMS Allure Allura Rob Leuschke, TypeSETit Google Font Page
EMS Bird Bilbo Rob Leuschke, TypeSETit Google Font Page
EMS Bird Swash Caps Bilbo Swash Caps Rob Leuschke, TypeSETit Google Font Page
EMS Brush Alex Brush Rob Leuschke, TypeSETit Google Font Page
EMS Capitol Sacramento Brian J. Bonislawsky, Astigmatic One Eye Typographic Institute Google Font Page
EMS Casual Hand Covered By Your Grace Kimberly Geswein, Kimberly Geswein Fonts Google Font Page
EMS Decorous Script Petit Formal Script Impallari Type Google Font Page
EMS Delight Delius Natalia Raices Google Font Page
EMS Delight Swash Caps Delius Swash Caps Natalia Raices Google Font Page
EMS Elfin Mountains of Christmas Crystal Kluge, Tart Workshop Google Font Page
EMS Felix Felipa Fontstage Google Font Page
EMS Herculean Poiret One Denis Masharov Google Font Page
EMS Invite Tangerine Toshi Omagari Google Font Page
EMS League League Script Haley Fiege, the League of Moveable Type Google Font Page
EMS Little Princess Princess Sofia Crystal Kluge, Tart Workshop Google Font Page
EMS Misty Night Foglihten No03 Grzegorz L, GLUK fonts FontSquirrel Page
EMS Neato Bad Script Roman Shchyukin, Gaslight Google Font Page
EMS Osmotron Orbitron (Regular) Matt McInerney, the League of Moveable Type Google Font Page
EMS Pancakes Short Stack James Grieshaber, Typeco Google Font Page
EMS Pepita Pecita Philippe Cochy FontSquirrel Page
EMS Qwandry Qwigley Rob Leuschke, TypeSETit Google Font Page
EMS Readability Source Sans Pro-Light Paul D. Hunt, Adobe Google Font Page
EMS Readability Italic Source Sans Pro-Light Paul D. Hunt, Adobe Google Font Page
EMS Society Mrs Saint Delafield Alejandro Paul, Sudtipos Google Font Page
EMS Swiss Italianno Rob Leuschke, TypeSETit Google Font Page
EMS Tech Architects Daughter Kimberly Geswein, Kimberly Geswein Fonts Google Font Page


Resources