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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

The Text tool

Like all the tools we’ve discussed so far, the Text tool is located in the Tool control bar on the left. By activating it, we get a little cross cursor with the letter A beside it, and we can now click anywhere on the canvas to start writing text. Inkscape gives us a little blinking cursor you’re probably familiar with in other writing tools. When this blinking cursor is showing, all we need do is type out our text on the keyboard, as shown in Figure 7.1:

Figure 7.1 – Using the Text tool to type our first text

Figure 7.1 – Using the Text tool to type our first text

Note that, by default, Inkscape has made our text the same color for Fill and Stroke that we were using before in our other shapes. We’d like just black text for the moment, so we can simply click on the black swatch at the bottom to make the fill black, press Shift, and click the red X swatch to unset the stroke color, as shown in Figure 7.2 (you can also do this in the Fill and Stroke dialog if you have...