The Custom-Script font is one of the available svg-font within the Custom Stroke font extension. These fonts can be used both by the Hershey text extension or within the Custom Stroke Font extension, whichever you prefer. The Custom Stroke Font extension also comes with a few smooth Custom fonts and one of these is a beautiful script font. Though, I struggle with the non basic latin characters here so I stick with the Hershey Text for rendering. Also – like for the Hershey text extension you can render text from svg-fonts with the Custom Stroke Fonts extension. Working on the more advanced kerning properties is not an option here, but for whimsical handwritten and script fonts the options here are sufficient. With that extension I was able to finish my fonts as svg with the basic spacing between characters in place.
FONTS FOR INKSCAPE HOW TO
Here is the link to the extension with some youtube videos to explain how to use it. This extension is a lot better than my previous extension for generating svg-fonts and updated for Inkscape v1.0. Then I discovered an excellent set of Inkscape extensions from khemadeva for both creating, editing and using any svg-fonts in Inkscape. Find this and other smoothed svg-fonts here.
Using my fonts this way will also be quicker and more intuitive. So – I can make my own smooth fonts like I did previously with the smoothed version of the Hershey font, but now as svg-font, not a temporary ttf-font. I therefore appreciate that we are given the option to select any svg-font and use that with Hershey text v3.0. The Hershey Text included fonts all consist of straight lines which looks fair enough with small sized letters, but not so natural as the size increases. If you want a larger size of your text this will not look very handwritten and smooth for round letters. A set of Hershey fonts and a group called EMS fonts are included, but all are based on straight lines only. ‘From Inkscape v1.0 the Hershey text extension v3.0 is included in Inkscape. The Hershey Text extension from Evil Mad Scientist have been around for a while. Maybe I could find new and better solutions on how to use my single line fonts.
FONTS FOR INKSCAPE UPDATE
I have now re-coded the openPath extension, but I wanted also to update myself on the topic. There have been a fundamental update to how extensions are handeled in Inkscape. I did have a solution for these fonts, but I realized that with version 1.0 of Inkscape my reopen-single-line-font no longer works. Read more about this in an old post of mine. I want my plotter to write like handwriting, not the outline or tracing the path twice like the stick fonts. Single line fonts, oneline fonts, monoline fonts, stroke fonts, sketch fonts, engraving fonts – many names, but none of them are clear or specific. My intended use is sketching with my Silhouette cutting machine as a plotter. Here comes an update on how I make use of single line fonts in Inkscape.
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