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Design Made Easy with Inkscape

By : Christopher Rogers
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Book Image

Design Made Easy with Inkscape

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By: Christopher Rogers

Overview of this book

With the power and versatility of the Inkscape software, making charts, diagrams, illustrations, and UI mockups with infinite resolution becomes enjoyable. If you’re looking to get up to speed with vector illustration in no time, this comprehensive guide has got your back! Design Made Easy with Inkscape is easy to follow and teaches you everything you need to know to create graphics that you can use and reuse forever, for free! You’ll benefit from the author’s industry experience as you go over the basics of vector illustration, discovering tips and tricks for getting professional graphics done fast by leveraging Inkscape's powerful toolset. This book teaches by example, using a great variety of use cases from icons and logos to illustration, web design, and product design. You’ll learn about hotkeys and take a best-practices approach developed over ten years of using Inkscape as a design tool in production. What’s more, this book also includes links to free graphics resources that you can use in all your projects. Whether you’re a new user or a professional, by the end of this book, you’ll have full understanding of how to use Inkscape and its myriad of excellent features to make stunning graphics for your projects.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Part 1: Finding Your Way Around
7
Part 2: Advanced Shape Editing
13
Part 3: Inkscape’s Power Tools

Installing new fonts

Throughout this chapter, I’ll be using a variety of fonts to demonstrate, but where did I get all these wonderful fonts and how did I get them into Inkscape?

At the time of writing this book, I generally get all my fonts from Google’s massive font website: https://fonts.google.com/. The reason for this is that Google meticulously curates the best free and open fonts, which can be used professionally anywhere without you having to pay license fees. Additionally, the SIL Open Font License in which all of these fonts are included ensures that you can use, edit, and extend the character set for your purposes.

This ultimate flexibility is why I choose fonts from this list rather than proprietary fonts. There are thousands of excellent fonts in this archive, freely available to download. Google has a very nice site with a great search engine for finding just what you want.

As an example, let’s download and install one, which we will use...