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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

Understanding variable fonts

Up to this point, we’ve seen a lot of hidden font options that replaced certain glyphs in the font with alternate ones, but there is a class of font that lets you change many more aspects of the letter geometry.

Let’s look at one of the more interesting ones: Decovar24 (see https://v-fonts.com/fonts/decovar for more information and download links for this font). Figure 7.29 shows what tweaking some of the many variable font sliders, which appear at the bottom of the Font tab of the Text and Font dialog, can do:

Figure 7.29 – Changing some of the variable font sliders dramatically changes the look

Figure 7.29 – Changing some of the variable font sliders dramatically changes the look

At the time of writing, there are still only a hundred or so good variable fonts. As adoption increases for variable fonts in other graphics applications, you can expect to see more options. Many have a basic set of options such as sliders for tilt, character width, boldness, or thinness, and I encourage you...