Provide more vector fonts
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100
- Issue type
- Feature
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- c
- Domain
- computer-graphics
Research direction
No source files, tests, or entry points are identified in the issue. First clarify whether the goal is adding converted font data or implementing a TrueType loader, along with the supported font families and rendering requirements. Done should be defined by an agreed scope and tests demonstrating the additional glyph coverage or loading behavior.
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Description
The glyphs originated from Hershey vector fonts and fitted curved portions with splines. The only font family in Mado is Roman, but it is possible to convert existing open TrueType fonts to the internal representations. Alternatively, we can provide a TrueType font loader for diverse glyph rendering.
Hershey vector fonts were developed by Dr. A. V. Hershey in the 1960s while he was at the Naval Weapons Laboratory. These fonts were designed for use in vector-based computer displays and printers and were remarkably advanced for their time. They feature thousands of glyphs, including special characters, mathematical symbols, musical notation, and more. In addition to their beauty, the fonts include per-character side bearings, and even a script font with ligatures is available.
Reference:
- libschrift: a lightweight TrueType font rendering library. [ISC License] / Remove dependency on libm
- HersheyView
- Hershey-Unicode-Mapping: Most comprehensive mapping of Hershey Vector Fonts to Unicode, including Roman, Greek, Cyrillic, Italic, Gothic, Kanji, Hiragana and Katakana.
- Choco Kanji: Japanese Hershey SVG font for use with pen plotters.
- A single line Hershey font for Chinese
- Sticky Scribbles: Make SVGs with scribbling and vector text via Hershey fonts.
- HersheyVectorFonts: C++ library for working with the Hershey vector fonts.
- Dominant language
- C
- Stars
- 118
- Forks
- 25
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
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