Hershey Text is an Inkscape extension for rendering text with engraving fonts. It has been included as part of standard Inkscape distributions since version 0.91.
Please read this article at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories for a general introduction to stroke fonts and Hershey Text.
The version of Hershey Text distributed with Inkscape includes about 12 different typefaces, as well as several symbol-based fonts. These original "Hershey Fonts" were originally created by Dr. A. V. Hershey while working at the U.S. National Bureau of Standards (now NIST), in the 1960s.
The latest version of Hershey Text, available from our GitHub repository also includes a number of new engraving fonts derived from modern fonts licensed under the SIL Open Font License, as listed below. If you would like to try it out, you can download it from the EggBot repository, where it is located in the "Inkscape_driver" folder. To install it manually, copy the three files "hershey.py", "hershey.inx," and "hersheydata.py" into your Inkscape extensions folder, replacing those three files there.
| Engraving font name
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A derivative of
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Designer
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Reference
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| EMS Allure |
Allura |
Rob Leuschke, TypeSETit |
Google Font Page
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| EMS Bird |
Bilbo |
Rob Leuschke, TypeSETit |
Google Font Page
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| EMS Bird Swash Caps |
Bilbo Swash Caps |
Rob Leuschke, TypeSETit |
Google Font Page
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| EMS Brush |
Alex Brush |
Rob Leuschke, TypeSETit |
Google Font Page
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| EMS Capitol |
Sacramento |
Brian J. Bonislawsky, Astigmatic One Eye Typographic Institute |
Google Font Page
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| EMS Casual Hand |
Covered By Your Grace |
Kimberly Geswein, Kimberly Geswein Fonts |
Google Font Page
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| EMS Decorous Script |
Petit Formal Script |
Impallari Type |
Google Font Page
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| EMS Delight |
Delius |
Natalia Raices |
Google Font Page
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| EMS Delight Swash Caps |
Delius Swash Caps |
Natalia Raices |
Google Font Page
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| EMS Elfin |
Mountains of Christmas |
Crystal Kluge, Tart Workshop |
Google Font Page
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| EMS Felix |
Felipa |
Fontstage |
Google Font Page
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| EMS Herculean |
Poiret One |
Denis Masharov |
Google Font Page
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| EMS Invite |
Tangerine |
Toshi Omagari |
Google Font Page
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| EMS League |
League Script |
Haley Fiege, the League of Moveable Type |
Google Font Page
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| EMS Little Princess |
Princess Sofia |
Crystal Kluge, Tart Workshop |
Google Font Page
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| EMS Misty Night |
Foglihten No03 |
Grzegorz L, GLUK fonts |
FontSquirrel Page
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| EMS Neato |
Bad Script |
Roman Shchyukin, Gaslight |
Google Font Page
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| EMS Osmotron |
Orbitron (Regular) |
Matt McInerney, the League of Moveable Type |
Google Font Page
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| EMS Pancakes |
Short Stack |
James Grieshaber, Typeco |
Google Font Page
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| EMS Pepita |
Pecita |
Philippe Cochy |
FontSquirrel Page
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| EMS Qwandry |
Qwigley |
Rob Leuschke, TypeSETit |
Google Font Page
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| EMS Readability |
Source Sans Pro-Light |
Paul D. Hunt, Adobe |
Google Font Page
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| EMS Readability Italic |
Source Sans Pro-Light |
Paul D. Hunt, Adobe |
Google Font Page
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| EMS Society |
Mrs Saint Delafield |
Alejandro Paul, Sudtipos |
Google Font Page
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| EMS Swiss |
Italianno |
Rob Leuschke, TypeSETit |
Google Font Page
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| EMS Tech |
Architects Daughter |
Kimberly Geswein, Kimberly Geswein Fonts |
Google Font Page
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