![]() ![]() They have a software tool (“Scriptalizer”) that will render variable text for you, demo it here. Also these aren’t simple fonts they have variant characters so that you can draw text without every single instance of a letter looking identical. ![]() At $130 a font these aren’t cheap! But they’re nicely designed and have a lot of technical details on how to best use them with AxiDraw. I think those can be used with an AxiDraw OK, they mention that each line is drawn twice because of technical requirements.Ī more sophisticated (and expensive) option is Quantum Enterprise’s single line fonts. A bit heavy towards cursive scripts (but not true cursive, since the letters don’t actually connect.) There’s a very limited set of SVG fonts but a larger number of TTF fonts. ![]() Single Line Fonts sells a handful of nice looking fonts for very modest prices, $20 or less. So I asked on the drawingbots Discord for inspiration and got a couple of good suggestions.Ī simple option is to just use better fonts. Update: when writing this up I neglected to talk about the EMS fonts, a series of free SVG fonts included for use with the HersheyText 3.0 plugin and SVG font format The Good Stuff The image below was plotted poorly with a bleeding pen on cheap paper, so ignore the dots and bleed, but nothing’s gonna fix these tragic shapes. 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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