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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

Font collections

With all the many hundreds of fonts on your system (thousands in my case), you may just want to select a subset of your favorites to categorize based on what you’re doing. Thus, the Inkscape developers have once again blessed us with a brand new feature in Inkscape 1.3: the ability to make Font collections. If you click the font folder icon in the far-right of the Tool control bar (with the Text tool selected, of course), you get a popover that shows each of your Font collections and a checkbox beside each entry. Checking these boxes will hide all other fonts from the Font Family dropdown, as shown in the before and after diagram in Figure 7.21.

Figure 7.21 – No collections checked versus Document Fonts collection checked

Figure 7.21 – No collections checked versus Document Fonts collection checked

Thus, when there are no collections checked, Inkscape shows us all our fonts. If we check one or more collections, however, Inkscape will hide all fonts but those that are contained in the selected collections...