That is to say, the visible part of a character in an outline font is the area enclosed by the shape. In these, each glyph in the font defines a filled vector shape. Hershey Text v 3.0 will be bundled into future versions of Inkscape, but it’s also included with the new AxiDraw software and available on its own for download today.Īll common computer font formats (TrueType, et al.) are outline font formats. We have a comprehensive user guide for it as well. We are very pleased this week to release an all-new version of Hershey Text, written from scratch, and far more useful, capable, and extensible. Hershey text could take a little bit of text that you would type and render it into stroke fonts, also known as engraving fonts.

EggBot repository, historical home of Hershey Text software old versions may be found in repository history.Some years ago we wrote a neat little Inkscape extension called Hershey Text.

Hershey Font source files from Jeff Epler.

Opentype SVG Font Editor from MicrosoftĪdditional links of possible interest.

Adobe type tools for making opentype SVG fonts.

Hershey Text v 3.0 is also included standard with the AxiDraw software and EggBot software installers.

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. You can download Hershey Text v 3.0 from the repository. For Mac, install Inkscape 0.92.2, and for Windows install Inkscape 0.92.4. Hershey Text v 3.0 requires Inkscape version 0.92. 4 Additional links of possible interestĪ complete user guide for Hershey Text is available for download here (1 MB PDF document).

How to download fonts for inkscape