The Hershey fonts are a collection of vector fonts developed by
Dr. Allen V. Hershey at the Naval
Weapons Laboratory and published in
Calligraphy for Computers (1967). The collection
comprises over 2,000 glyphs defined in straight line segments and
spans various Latin styles including serif, sans, script,
blackletter (Fraktur, Old English, Lombardic), some with italic,
bold or condensed variations. Furthermore, there is Greek,
Cyrillic, Japanese, and various symbol glyph sets. This collective
entry is used for all styles that have no dedicated entry. The font
data for 1,377 characters was published
by NIST in 1976.
In 2015, Frank Grießhammer has announced an outline version
that can be used in contemporary applications, to be More…
The Hershey fonts are a collection of vector fonts developed by Dr. Allen V. Hershey at the Naval Weapons Laboratory and published in Calligraphy for Computers (1967). The collection comprises over 2,000 glyphs defined in straight line segments and spans various Latin styles including serif, sans, script, blackletter (Fraktur, Old English, Lombardic), some with italic, bold or condensed variations. Furthermore, there is Greek, Cyrillic, Japanese, and various symbol glyph sets. This collective entry is used for all styles that have no dedicated entry. The font data for 1,377 characters was published by NIST in 1976.
In 2015, Frank Grießhammer has announced an outline version that can be used in contemporary applications, to be released under an Open Source license.
Other conversion/interpretations include Stewart C. Russell’s AVHershey (2016), and Luuse’s Hershey Noailles (31 styles, 2018).
