![]() If you design for any of these on a regular basis, you’re likely to come across a case where you’d like to efficiently create some readable text with your tool, and “engraving” fonts are often the best choice. Thirty years later, low-cost and easily available computer-controlled manufacturing tools have created an exciting realm for exploration that’s even open to most hobbyists: Laser engravers, 3D printers, CNC routers, vinyl cutters, embroidery machines, and (yes) pen plotters. But then along came “outline” fonts, dot matrix monitors, high-resolution printers and personal computers. Good solutions– sets of “engraving” fonts –were developed. ![]() Creating simple representations of text was an important problem in early computer graphics, for both vector displays and pen plotters. Neither the problem nor the fundamental solution are new. ![]() But it goes to the heart of who we are and what we’re doing. Huh? What’s this all about? Why are you doing this? Quick start: Download and install the EggBot extensions for Inkscape, which now include Hershey Text. This extension solves a persistent problem, and one which we have come across in many different contexts: How to easily create simple and readable vector representations of text. Hershey Text is an Inkscape extension that can render a line of text in one of several stroke-based “engraving” fonts.
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