Hershey font TTF files

What is Hershey font?

• About Hershey Fonts.
  • Hershey fonts are vector fonts made of strokes. Currently, there is no official TTF/OTF support for Hershey.
  • However, Hershey fonts have been widely used in the astronomy community (pre-Python).

Why TTF?

• To be able to keep the style, AVHershey-OTF profiles a OTF "projection" of the original Hershey fonts (another approach to map the Hershey font can be found here).
• Here, for personal use, based on AVHershey-OTF, I ddded italic styles and a few missing fonts (uni2299, $\odot$ for example) then created TTF files.
• I will try to update the fonts by adding more missing characters.

Structure:

• AVHershey Complex (which contains the most characters):

  • Light,
  • Light Italic,
  • Medium,
  • Medium Italic,
  • Heavy,
  • Heavy Italic.

• AVHershey Duplex:

  • Light,
  • Light Italic,
  • Medium,
  • Medium Italic,
  • Heavy,
  • Heavy Italic.

• AVHershey Simplex:

  • Light,
  • Light Italic,
  • Medium,
  • Medium Italic,
  • Heavy,
  • Heavy Italic.

Example: