Hershey

Hershey is a library for generating vector paths for the single line Hershey Font, which can be used for vector applications like rendering technical annotations on a WebGL canvas using Three.js.

You can download the font and find the format description here: https://emergent.unpythonic.net/software/hershey

Limitations

Only the Roman Simplex font is supported, which includes the following characters:

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
.,:;!?"°$/()|-+='#&\_*[]{}<>~%@

Usage

This library will generate a set of vector paths for a string of characters. The bounds will also be included for us in justification, but the default output is that the text will be centered both horizontally and vertically.

For example:

$ npm install hershey
$ node
> const hershey = require('hershey')
> hershey.stringToPaths('AH')
{
  "bounds": {
    "minY":-9,
    "maxY":12,
    "minX":-20,
    "maxX":20
  },
  "paths":[
    [[-11,12],[-19,-9]],
    [[-11,12],[-3,-9]],
    [[-16,-2],[-6,-2]],
    [[2,12],[2,-9]],
    [[16,12],[16,-9]],
    [[2,2],[16,2]]
  ]
}

will generate the following vector paths:

Also see test/functional/index.js for an SVG implementation in React.

License

See HERSHEY-LICENSE and CODE-LICENSE