---
name: "hershey-font-gnuplot"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "hershey-font-gnuplot"
version: "0.1-1.1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/hershey-font-gnuplot"
---

# hershey-font-gnuplot(1)

Hershey vector fonts renderer for gnuplot

## NAME

hershey-font-gnuplot - Hershey vector fonts renderer for gnuplot

## SYNOPSIS

**hershey-font-gnuplot** \[*options*\] *font* 'Text to Render'\

**hershey-font-gnuplot** \[*options*\] *font*

## DESCRIPTION

The Hershey fonts are a collection of vector fonts developed circa 1967 by Dr. A. V. Hershey.

**hershey-font-gnuplot** renders Hershey font text in the form of a **gnuplot** input file. Its output must be piped to **gnuplot** as shown in the EXAMPLES section below.

If no 'Text to Render' is specified, a font sample sheet displaying all the font's glyphs will be generated.

## FONTS

The *font* parameter must be the name of a system-installed Hershey font or the filename of a Hershey font *.jhf* file. The Hershey fonts likely to be installed are:

**astrology**, **cursive**, **cyrillic**, **futural**, **futuram**, **gothgbt**, **gothgrt**, **gothiceng**, **gothicger**, **gothicita**, **gothitt**, **greekc**, **greek**, **greeks**, **japanese**, **markers**, **mathlow**, **mathupp**, **meteorology**, **music**, **rowmand**, **rowmans**, **rowmant**, **scriptc**, **scripts**, **symbolic**, **timesg**, **timesib**, **timesi**, **timesrb**, **timesr**

## OPTIONS

- **-T** *'gnuplot\_terminal\_type \[gnuplot\_terminal\_opts\]'*

  Set gnuplot output type and options, for example:\
  \
     **-T pdf**\
  \
     **-T png**\
  \
     **-T 'png crop transparent'**\
   See **gnuplot**'s *set terminal* command for more output type options. If not specified, an X11 window display (*wxt*) is selected.

- **-h** *font\_height*

  Set the font height in pixels (default 100).

## EXAMPLES

```

```

hershey-font-gnuplot japanese \| gnuplot -p

hershey-font-gnuplot futural   'Hello World!' \| gnuplot -p

hershey-font-gnuplot gothiceng 'Calligraphy'  \| gnuplot -p

hershey-font-gnuplot -T 'png crop' scriptc 'Nice Text' \| gnuplot \> out.png

## SEE ALSO

[**gnuplot**(1)](/gnuplot/1.md)

## AUTHOR

**hershey-font-gnuplot** was written by Kamal Mostafa \<kamal@whence.com\>.