For anyone who is interested in fonts that are literally intended to be used with router bits, there is an old font format called SHX (not the GIS thing) for this. I had been looking for such a thing for some time, and then I stumbled upon this post: <a href="https://forum.lightburnsoftware.com/t/shx-font-collection/25298" rel="nofollow">https://forum.lightburnsoftware.com/t/shx-font-collection/25...</a>. It's useful for CNC tasks where you really want to minimize the total path length of a given string.<p>This National Park typeface is kind of funny to me, because it originates from a similar practical constraint, but adapting it to the finite-width OTF format eliminates the practical aspect of it. Not that there's anything wrong with that; I realize it's still useful.
I love the look, but the kerning seems to be a little off, especially for initial caps. Try typing “Testing” into the test box. Although I guess you’d mostly use all caps anyways if you wanted the full “park sign” effect.
One of my favorites: <a href="https://webonastick.com/fonts/routed-gothic/" rel="nofollow">https://webonastick.com/fonts/routed-gothic/</a>
I don’t really respond to typefaces like other do. Someone will point out Roboto or some other typeface and talk about how they like it , and I probably couldn’t tell it from any other.<p>But typefaces with associations like this one actually get a response from me. Almost like there is something subliminal.
Discussed at the time:<p><i>National Park Typeface</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20096120" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20096120</a> - June 2019 (84 comments)
Semi-related: IIRC, Hershey vector fonts were used in HP Basic, as for HP plotters.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hershey_fonts" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hershey_fonts</a>