AxiDraw has support for them as does this third party product but the actual classic Hershey fonts are, let’s just say, unaesthetic. The other quick solution is what’s called “Hershey Fonts” (after a Dr. And it still relies on you having a font to draw the shapes. You can get somewhere using an italic nib (basically a pen tip that’s a wide line, not a point) but it’s pretty tricky. Unfortunately traditional calligraphy is out because most calligraphy requires varying pen pressure to change line width and that’s something an AxiDraw and most other plotters simply can’t do. OTOH there’s a whole art form of handwriting text with pens, so maybe some ideas from artists that can be borrowed? You can try drawing and filling the outline of a traditional TrueType font but that seldom looks good. The issue here is that most of desktop typography doesn’t apply to plotters because it all relies on filled fonts, effectively bitmaps. I’m looking for some tools / inspiration for creating text with my pen plotter. (Expert readers skip down to “The Good Stuff”).
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