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, https://www.evilmadscientist.com/2019/hershey-text-v30/ Hershey Text v 3.0], has recently been released and is included with the current versions of both the AxiDraw software and the EggBot software. It will be included in Inkscape, starting in Inkscape 1.0.
Please read this article at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories for a general introduction to stroke fonts and Hershey Text.
Hershey Text User Guide
A complete user guide for Hershey Text is available for download here (1 MB PDF document).
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.
Hershey Text v 3.0 is also included standard with the AxiDraw software and EggBot software installers.
Resources
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.
- 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
