#video on #Hershey-fonts #history from Frank Grießhammer’s presentation nine years ago in 02016
on 02025-12-21more about #Hershey-fonts and their #history, including a drafting textbook from 01865 with a “technical lettering style” quite similar to #Gorton
on 02025-12-21Marcin Wichary, Figma design directory, wrote this #Gorton #fonts page, tracing the current letterforms (more or less) back to 01902! Then it spread to Leroy lettering sets and Wonder Woman comic books and Letraset rubbings... and #Hershey-fonts! It originated at Taylor, Taylor, & Hobson in the UK in 01894, four years before Akzidenz-Grotesk. 6100 words, 600 photos. #history
on 02025-12-21#PDF #paper from 01969 about “COM”, #computer-output-microfilm, as was used in the development of #Hershey-fonts, including #Charactron use. #history
on 02025-12-11Someone made #TrueType fonts of the #Hershey-fonts, based on AVHershey-OTF. #font
on 02024-01-14#PDF scan of the NBS #Hershey-fonts report. #fonts
on 02024-01-12#Hershey-fonts C library for Debian, in particular for Gnuplot and OpenLase. #fonts
on 02024-01-12the #Hershey-fonts #file-format #fonts
on 02024-01-12#R package for dissecting #Hershey-fonts. #fonts
on 02024-01-12Stewart C. Russell’s #TrueType (or at least OpenType) conversion of the #Hershey-fonts. #fonts
on 02024-01-12Stewart C. Russell’s #retrocomputing blog with #NAPLPS, #Hershey-fonts info (#fonts!), embedded #hardware, #speech-synthesis, etc.
on 02024-01-12