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Re: the history of the Hershey fonts (was Re: reprints of old AI memos)

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From Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org>
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Subject Re: the history of the Hershey fonts (was Re: reprints of old AI memos)
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Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
> On the other hand, you can get a lot of variations out of a single
> Hershey font by varying the thickness and patterning of the strokes
> used to render it.
>
> Examples of use of the Hershey fonts are here
> <https://www.deviantart.com/default-cube/gallery/54390594/hersheypy-examples>.

These are very nice!

I’ve been thinking about other variations as well; stroke fonts handle
variations in aspect ratio and obliquing much better than outline fonts
do, for example, and I suspect that some simple heuristics for replacing
some straight lines with curves ought to be able to produce high-quality
lettering from some Hershey fonts.

Kragen

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