Inky ClipsHershey Serif Bold Italic font
Hershey Serif Bold Italic leans the bold Hershey roman forward and gives it true italic letterforms, so lowercase a, e and f take on a flowing, written shape. Like the upright bold, its weight is made from several parallel strokes.
- Type
- Single-line (stroke) font
- Style
- Titles
- Characters
- 95 in the file
- Licence
- Hershey fonts licence
- Download
- HersheySerifBoldItalic.svg
About Hershey Serif Bold Italic
What it looks like
It has more movement than the upright version, which makes it feel more expressive and less formal.
On video
Good for emphasis: a single headline word, a film-style title, a quote. It looks especially good written slowly.
For plotters, engraving and cutting machines
Plots as bold italic type with a single pen. The slant hides small registration differences between the parallel strokes, so it is more forgiving than the upright bold.
Every character in Hershey Serif Bold Italic
Each letter below is drawn from the single pen line stored in HersheySerifBoldItalic.svg, exactly as a plotter would draw it.
Capitals (26)
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
- Y
- Z
Lowercase (26)
- a
- b
- c
- d
- e
- f
- g
- h
- i
- j
- k
- l
- m
- n
- o
- p
- q
- r
- s
- t
- u
- v
- w
- x
- y
- z
Numbers (10)
- 0
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
Punctuation and symbols (33)
- !
- "
- #
- $
- %
- &
- '
- (
- )
- *
- +
- ,
- -
- .
- /
- :
- ;
- <
- =
- >
- ?
- @
- [
- \
- ]
- ^
- _
- `
- {
- |
- }
- ~
-
Letters Inky Clips adds (74)
Not in the font file. Inky Clips draws these on video from the font’s own letters: adding the accent or bar, dropping the dot for ı, or writing ß as “ss”.
- Ä
- Æ
- Ç
- Ó
- Ö
- Ø
- Ü
- ß
- ä
- æ
- ç
- ó
- ö
- ø
- ü
- Ā
- ā
- Ą
- ą
- Ć
- ć
- Č
- č
- Đ
- đ
- Ē
- ē
- Ė
- ė
- Ę
- ę
- Ğ
- ğ
- Ģ
- ģ
- Ħ
- ħ
- Ī
- ī
- Į
- į
- İ
- ı
- Ķ
- ķ
- Ļ
- ļ
- Ł
- ł
- Ń
- ń
- Ņ
- ņ
- Œ
- œ
- Ś
- ś
- Ş
- ş
- Š
- š
- Ū
- ū
- Ų
- ų
- Ź
- ź
- Ż
- ż
- Ž
- ž
- Ə
- ə
- ẞ
Write with Hershey Serif Bold Italic
Type your own words and watch them write themselves over a clip. Switch fonts and ink colours to compare.
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Ink: White
Letters for other languages
- Latvian: the font file doesn't include ā č ē ģ ī ķ ļ ņ š ū ž Ā Č Ē Ģ Ī Ķ Ļ Ņ Š Ū Ž, but Inky Clips draws all of them on video from the font’s own letters.
- Lithuanian: the font file doesn't include ą č ę ė į š ų ū ž Ą Č Ę Ė Į Š Ų Ū Ž, but Inky Clips draws all of them on video from the font’s own letters.
- Polish: the font file doesn't include ą ć ę ł ń ó ś ź ż Ą Ć Ę Ł Ń Ó Ś Ź Ż, but Inky Clips draws all of them on video from the font’s own letters.
- Turkish: the font file doesn't include ç ğ ı İ ö ş ü Ç Ğ Ö Ş Ü, but Inky Clips draws all of them on video from the font’s own letters.
- German: the font file doesn't include ä ö ü ß Ä Ö Ü, but Inky Clips draws all of them on video from the font’s own letters.
If you plot or engrave with the downloaded file, only the letters in the file are available.
Where it comes from
Dr. Allen V. Hershey drew the Hershey fonts at the U.S. Naval Weapons Laboratory in Dahlgren, Virginia, and published them in 1967, among the first typefaces made for computers. Every letter is stored as pen strokes rather than an outline, because they were drawn for the vector plotters and screens of the day. They have travelled through plotter software, CAD and engraving tools ever since, and Inkscape's Hershey Text extension still uses them.
Licence and download
Hershey Serif Bold Italic is free under the Hershey fonts licence. Free to use for anything, including commercial work, as long as the attribution below is kept with the font.
The SVG version comes from Inkscape's Hershey Text extension (Windell H. Oskay, Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories) and the inkscapestrokefont project.
The Hershey Fonts were originally created by Dr. A. V. Hershey while working at the U. S. National Bureau of Standards. The format of the font data in this distribution was originally created by James Hurt, Cognition, Inc.
An SVG font. Load it in Inkscape's Hershey Text extension (Extensions › Text › Hershey Text) to set text as single pen lines for a plotter, laser or engraver.
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