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
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...
