Find this and other smoothed svg-fonts here. Using my fonts this way will also be quicker and more intuitive. So – I can make my own smooth fonts like I did previously with the smoothed version of the Hershey font, but now as svg-font, not a temporary ttf-font. I therefore appreciate that we are given the option to select any svg-font and use that with Hershey text v3.0. The Hershey Text included fonts all consist of straight lines which looks fair enough with small sized letters, but not so natural as the size increases. If you want a larger size of your text this will not look very handwritten and smooth for round letters. A set of Hershey fonts and a group called EMS fonts are included, but all are based on straight lines only. ‘From Inkscape v1.0 the Hershey text extension v3.0 is included in Inkscape. The Hershey Text extension from Evil Mad Scientist have been around for a while. Maybe I could find new and better solutions on how to use my single line fonts. I have now re-coded the openPath extension, but I wanted also to update myself on the topic. There have been a fundamental update to how extensions are handeled in Inkscape. I did have a solution for these fonts, but I realized that with version 1.0 of Inkscape my reopen-single-line-font no longer works. Read more about this in an old post of mine. I want my plotter to write like handwriting, not the outline or tracing the path twice like the stick fonts. Single line fonts, oneline fonts, monoline fonts, stroke fonts, sketch fonts, engraving fonts – many names, but none of them are clear or specific. My intended use is sketching with my Silhouette cutting machine as a plotter. Here comes an update on how I make use of single line fonts in Inkscape.
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