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, 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

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

Installation

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

Resources

• Inkscape home page
• Hershey Text repository at gitlab
• SVG fonts repository at gitlab

• Adobe type tools for making opentype SVG fonts
• Opentype SVG Font Editor from Microsoft

Additional links of possible interest

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