{"id":10721,"date":"2014-05-18T12:10:37","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T16:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=10721"},"modified":"2025-06-21T16:36:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T20:36:38","slug":"precisely-what-nobody-wanted-the-hershey-fonts-as-a-huge-great-pdf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/18\/precisely-what-nobody-wanted-the-hershey-fonts-as-a-huge-great-pdf\/","title":{"rendered":"Precisely what nobody wanted \u2014 the Hershey fonts as a huge great PDF"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/HersheyNumberedOccidentalGrid.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/HersheyNumberedOccidentalGrid-section.png\" alt=\"HersheyNumberedOccidentalGrid-section\" class=\"wp-image-10722\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/HersheyNumberedOccidentalGrid-section.png 400w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/HersheyNumberedOccidentalGrid-section-160x160.png 160w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/HersheyNumberedOccidentalGrid-section-320x320.png 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s impractically huge, but under the image link lives a table of all of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hershey_font\">Hershey<\/a> fonts (well, the Western ones, at least). It&#8217;s interesting to note Dr Hershey&#8217;s preferences in this pre-ASCII table: almost every variant has degree, minute and second symbols, but none of them have \u2018\\\u2019. Many of them don\u2019t have \u2018@\u2019, either, so no e-mail addresses in Hershey Fraktur for you \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s impractically huge, but under the image link lives a table of all of the Hershey fonts (well, the Western ones, at least). It&#8217;s interesting to note Dr Hershey&#8217;s preferences in this pre-ASCII table: almost every variant has degree, minute and second symbols, but none of them have \u2018\\\u2019. Many of them don\u2019t have \u2018@\u2019, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[1374,2806,2803,765],"class_list":["post-10721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","tag-font","tag-glyphs","tag-hershey","tag-pdf"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-2MV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10721"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17866,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10721\/revisions\/17866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}