{"id":12658,"date":"2016-02-05T09:46:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T14:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=12658"},"modified":"2025-06-21T16:44:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T20:44:30","slug":"progress-on-hershey-font-outlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/05\/progress-on-hershey-font-outlines\/","title":{"rendered":"Progress on Hershey font outlines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"686\" height=\"218\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/hershey_howdy.jpg\" alt=\"Hershey Simplex says Hello\" class=\"wp-image-12659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/hershey_howdy.jpg 686w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/hershey_howdy-160x51.jpg 160w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/hershey_howdy-320x102.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 686px) 100vw, 686px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I still have lots of work to do, but at least now I can make buffered outlines of the 1967-vintage Hershey character glyphs into Fontforge-friendly vectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My goal is to release these as OTF fonts, rendered as it they&#8217;d been drawn by a constant line width pen plotter or film recorder, as was used in Dr Hershey&#8217;s day. Frank at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiosk-fonts.de\/\">Kiosk Fonts<\/a> has loftier goals, and may actually release <em>pretty<\/em> fonts one day \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I still have lots of work to do, but at least now I can make buffered outlines of the 1967-vintage Hershey character glyphs into Fontforge-friendly vectors. My goal is to release these as OTF fonts, rendered as it they&#8217;d been drawn by a constant line width pen plotter or film recorder, as was used in [&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":[2],"tags":[2667,2803],"class_list":["post-12658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goatee-stroking-musing-or-something","tag-fonts","tag-hershey"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-3ia","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12658","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=12658"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17872,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12658\/revisions\/17872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}