Hershey fonts
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hershey-fonts-199-16762809
title:
Hershey fonts
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The Hershey fonts are a collection of vector fonts developed c. 1967 by Dr. Allen Vincent Hershey at the Naval Weapons Laboratory, originally designed to be rendered using vectors on early cathode ray tube displays. Decomposing curves to connected straight lines allowed Hershey to produce complex typographic designs. In their original form the font data consists simply of a series of coordinates, meant to be connected by straight lines on the screen. The fonts are publicly available and have few
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wiki
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encyclopedia
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Typeface family
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hershey_fonts
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date modified:
2023-12-15T12:49:33Z
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