Hershey fonts
The Hershey fonts are a collection of vector fonts developed c. 1967 by Dr. Allen V. Hershey at the Naval Weapons Laboratory.[1][2] The fonts are publicly available and have few restrictions.[3] Vector fonts are easily scaled and rotated in two or three dimensions; consequently the Hershey fonts have been widely used in computer graphics and computer-aided design programs.
Styles
Simplex, duplex, and triplex versions of some glyphs.[3]
Coverage
The fonts include Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Japanese (kanji, hiragana and katakana). Symbolic glyphs support mathematics, musical notation, map markers, as well as meteorological symbols. The fonts also exist in Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format to support HTML 5.[4] Over 2,000 original plottings are defined. The font data for 1,377 (Occidental) characters was published by NIST in 1976.[5]
See also
References
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.. NTIS AD662398
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- ↑ 3.0 3.1 http://www.ghostscript.com/doc/current/Hershey.htm states that the fonts may not be distributed in the format provided by National Technical Information Service. The fonts were distributed via Usenet in a character encoding.
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External links
- http://emergent.unpythonic.net/software/hershey
- http://sol.gfxile.net/hershey/index.html
- http://soft9000.com/HersheyShowcase/
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