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- The 22 Hershey fonts supported by GNU libplot and executables based on it
- utilities are enhanced versions of the Hershey fonts that have been
- incorporated in many software packages over the years. They have been
- extended, by the addition of accented and other special characters, to
- provide virtually full support for the ISO-Latin-1 character set. They
- have been given new, modern-style names.
- The following table lists the modern names and the traditional names.
- Modern Name Traditional Name
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- HersheySerif Complex Roman
- HersheySerif-Italic Complex Italic
- HersheySerif-Bold Triplex Roman
- HersheySerif-BoldItalic Triplex Italic
- HersheySans Simplex Roman
- HersheySans-Oblique Simplex Roman [obliqued]
- HersheySans-Bold Duplex Roman
- HersheySans-BoldOblique Duplex Roman [obliqued]
- HersheyScript Simplex Script
- HersheyScript-Bold Complex Script
- HersheyGothicEnglish Gothic English
- HersheyGothicGerman Gothic German
- HersheyGothicItalian Gothic Italian
- HersheySerifSymbol Complex Greek
- HersheySerifSymbol-Oblique Complex Greek [obliqued]
- HersheySerifSymbol-Bold Triplex Greek
- HersheySerifSymbol-BoldOblique Triplex Greek [obliqued]
- HersheySansSymbol Simplex Greek
- HersheySansSymbol Simplex Greek [obliqued]
- HersheyCyrillic Complex Cyrillic, Roman
- HersheyCyrillic-Oblique Complex Cyrillic, Roman [obliqued]
- HersheyEUC [based on Japanese repertory]
- The `obliqued' versions have been obtained by performing an anamorphic
- transformation on the underlying font, to slant each character.
- The following are excerpts from Allen Hershey's 1967 technical report,
- `Calligraphy for Computers'. They explain the origin of many of the fonts.
- The names of the fonts have been modernized.
- "[The HersheySans fonts] are adaptations of the alphabets on Le Roy
- lettering sets. [The HersheySerif fonts, the Greek characters in the
- Hershey symbol fonts, and the Cyrillic characters in HersheyCyrillic] are
- adaptations of the alphabets to be observed in newspapers, text books, and
- dictionaries. (1,2)"
- "[The HersheyScript fonts] been adapted from a Headliner Typemaster of the
- Varityper Corporation. [HersheyGothicEnglish] has been adapted from a
- Le Roy lettering set for Old English... [HersheyGothicItalian] represents
- a large family of alphabets for which there does not seem to be a
- consistent nomenclature. Some writers refer to it as Gothic uncial while
- others call it Lombardic Gothic. It seems to have been developed in
- Lombardy while the best examples (3,4) come from Spain. The present
- version is an adaptation of a font [the `Missal Initials' font] of the
- American Type Founders Company (5)... [HersheyGothicGerman] is an
- adaptation of Fraktur (6)."
- Notes:
- (1) Webster's [New] International Dictionary [of the English Language].
- Second Edition. (G. and C. Merriam Company, Springfield, Mass., 1959)
- p. 75, p. 2750, p. 3001.
- (2) Specimens of Type Faces. (U. S. Government Printing Office,
- Washington, D. C.)
- (3) Alphabets, Ancient and Modern. J. B. Russell (Padell Book Co.,
- New York, 1945)
- (4) Lettering from A to Z. C. P. Hornung (Wm. Penn Publishing Corporation,
- New York, 1954)
- (5) Specimen Book and Catalog. (American Type Founders Company,
- Jersey City, N. J. 1923) p. 785
- (6) Treasury of Alphabets and Lettering. J. Tschichold (Reinhold
- Publishing Corporation, New York, 1966)
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