You're reading from Design Made Easy with Inkscape A practical guide to your journey from beginner to pro-level vector illustration

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801078771

Length 360 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Inkscape

Concepts

Design

Author (1):

Christopher Rogers

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Finding Your Way Around

2. Chapter 1: The Inkscape Interface FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Moving and Styling Shapes

4. Chapter 3: Drawing Shapes with the Shape Tools

5. Chapter 4: Automatic Shape Alignment in Inkscape

6. Chapter 5: Node Editing – Modifying Your Shapes with Nodes and Curves

7. Part 2: Advanced Shape Editing

8. Chapter 6: Fast Shape Editing with Path Operations and the Shape Builder Tool

9. Chapter 7: Using Text in Inkscape

10. Chapter 8: Advanced Shading and Coloring

11. Chapter 9: Clips and Masks

12. Chapter 10: Automation with Clones and Linked Files

13. Part 3: Inkscape’s Power Tools

14. Chapter 11: Organization Using Layers

15. Chapter 12: Live Path Effects

16. Chapter 13: Filters and Extensions

17. Chapter 14: Vectorizing with Trace Bitmap

18. Chapter 15: Document Properties, Pages, Exporting, and Printing

19. Index

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The Text and Font dialog

To open the Text and Font dialog, simply choose Text and Font..., which is the first entry in the Text menu at the top of the screen. Once it's open, you will see lots of familiar items that we saw previously in the Tool control bar while using the Text tool.

However, notice that we have a preview at the bottom, and not only are we able to see various samples of different fonts, but we also get nice visual examples of each of the font weights. Figure 7.23 shows what this dialog looks like when we call it up and have a text object selected:

Figure 7.23 – The Text and Font dialog with a text object selected

Unlike the Tool control bar, however, changing the Font family, Font size, or Font style option does not automatically change our text object on the canvas. Instead, it only changes the preview. This can be handy in certain situations where you just want to see what’s available without affecting your text...