{"id":12662,"date":"2016-02-07T00:46:47","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T05:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=12662"},"modified":"2016-02-09T05:14:01","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T10:14:01","slug":"hershey-writes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/07\/hershey-writes-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Hershey Writes Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update<\/strong>: very<\/em> preliminary OTF font files are available here: scruss\/AVHershey-OTF<\/a>. These don’t yet even encode all of ASCII, so aren’t yet generally useful.<\/p>\n

Major breakthrough: yesterday (Feb 5th), I got the old Hershey fonts outlined properly, and today I have compiled them (sorta<\/em>) into vector fonts. They’re not yet ready for release, as they have no metadata and are missing some key characters (even for ASCII).<\/p>\n

I based the line thicknesses for the fonts as if I were drawing a 16 pt character, and using a plotter with a 0.3 mm (light<\/em>), 0.7 mm (medium<\/em>) and 1.0 mm (heavy<\/em>) pen. You can see in the individual characters from the Hershey Complex font shown below, that the double hairline strokes merge into thicker single strokes. The same effect occurs on a real plotter, too:<\/p>\n

\"S_AVHersheyComplexLight\"<\/a>\"S_AVHersheyComplexMedium\"<\/a>\"S_AVHersheyComplexHeavy\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Here are some preliminary bitmap samples:<\/p>\n

\"Complex<\/a>
Complex Heavy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Complex<\/a>
Complex Light<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Complex<\/a>
Complex Medium<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Simplex<\/a>
Simplex Heavy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Simplex<\/a>
Simplex Light<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Simplex<\/a>
Simplex Medium<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update: very preliminary OTF font files are available here: scruss\/AVHershey-OTF. These don’t yet even encode all of ASCII, so aren’t yet generally useful. Major breakthrough: yesterday (Feb 5th), I got the old Hershey fonts outlined properly, and today I have compiled them (sorta) into vector fonts. They’re not yet ready for release, as they have […]<\/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":[2146,2667,2803,2958],"class_list":["post-12662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","tag-fontforge","tag-fonts","tag-hershey","tag-otf"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-3ie","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12662","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=12662"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12686,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12662\/revisions\/12686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}