Hershey Text
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.
Resources
- Inkscape home page
- Hershey Text repository at gitlab
- SVG fonts repository at gitlab
- EggBot repository, historical home of Hershey Text software; old versions may be found in repository history.
- Hershey Font source files from Jeff Epler
- Hershey Fonts in SVG by Marty McGuire
- Hershey Text in JS - A javascript version of Hershey Text
