Inkscape Explained: Text, Word Formatting and Installing Fonts

[@tarigeltom4903]

Thank you so much Nick.. It is very useful and informative . In 9:20 if you want the text to perfectly align horizontally on the circle, here is a simpler way: 1. Before applying text on path effect, make sure to center-align the text (not to the left nor to the right nor justify) 2. Apply the put-on-path effect. 3. Select the circle and rotate it 90 degrees clockwise The text will sit perfectly horizontal on the circle!

[@adronung1892]

That flow-into-frame functionality is amazing!

[@sea-goatbr7588]

I can't make it work though I follow step by step

[@approxahmed]

18:53 if you wanna know how to install fonts into inkscape

[@susanburns4630]

Ahmed Mudkip

[@zerovanity]

ty!

[@brionbee]

Thank you!!!!!!!

[@blwbisht]

Thanks man appreciate it 🙏

[@susanburns4630]

I have wasted so much time watching tutorials and learning not much. I have stumbled on yours and OMG I have learnt sooooo much thank you. Yours are the only tutorials I am going to watch from now on. Don't ever stop

[@byronwatkins2591]

Superscript is like an exponent in math; it is smaller and shifted upward. It can be any text, however, it does not need to follow a number like an exponent. Subscripts are similar, but are shifted downward instead. Both are very useful in technical drawings.

[@annabellak.2864]

Great tutorial, I've never used Envelope deformation. "Convert to text" can be used to finalize text after the "flow into frame" command without turning it to path. It makes the text as it had manual linebrakes (enter pressed at the end of each line) and then you can delete the shape itself. It also can be used with the kind of flowed text you get by drawing a text box with the text tool before typing (as opposed to just clicking). So it basicly turns flowed text into regular text. But it's worth to mention, that you can only have justified alignment with flowed text not regular text. I hope it makes sense, I'm not English and sometimes overcomplicate sentences :)

[@afs208]

subscript and superscript are usually for referencing or for eg 12th , the "th" will be at the top as a superscript. The subscript will be at the bottom of the word, for example equations such as Sigma a+c will have "a+c" at the bottom.

[@taylarogers313]

That very last tip is very good to know!!! I make my designs on my Chromebook and send them to myself to open on my laptop so that I can use cricut design space. Thanks for sharing!

[@PauloCrepaldi]

Congratulations!! You covered basically everything regarding text. Real nice job!!!

[@juice4160]

That guy mowing his lawn 14:51

[@engmondy1111]

Man, can you do illustrator tutorials please?! The reason I am asking is that your tutorials quality are pretty high and your English, accent, talking flow, presentation etc is top notch. Very good work and I think I would pay for your tutorials. Thank you for all the efforts.

[@joanmidgley2544]

Great video! I'm sure you know this already, but I just want to add another option for the problem at 11:12 as it's not always so easy to find things that you can't see, and sometimes there are just too many to deselect in order to be left with your object. You could go to View > Display Mode > Outline (or toggle through the view modes with Ctrl + 5) to show all the outlines of all the objects that you've created. Then just left-click on the desired outline and toggle back to Normal View before selecting a visible color.

[@demensclay6419]

Very useful, once again, Nick, thanks for your efforts to share your knowledge.

[@YukiyoHibiki]

I just installed your Dark Icon set and love it! Thank you! Your videos are easy to follow, high quality, and extremely helpful :) I'm a huge fan, and really appreciate it! ...Also, I'm a Linux Mint user :)

[@mousehouse4617]

2:18 FYI Superscript is formatting for things like a TM mark or degrees character or formatting the 'st' on 1st

[@ahmeddeiaa3943]

tutorials like is this one are awesome, keep it up Nick

[@hanspijpers2100]

Another tip concerning fonts, in windows, you can copy *.ttf from any unzipped file or *.otf and paste them into C:\Windows\Fonts. it will automatically install the fonts for you, if you have a lot of fonts to install. Goes a lot faster than clicking each separate file and click the install button Kind regards Hans

[@BlessedinKentucky]

Sooooo helpful! I'm just learning Inkscape. Thank you for taking the time to make this tutorial!

[@TheGizmo47]

cracking tutorial really enjoyed that not rushed and very clear great job Nick

[@hanspijpers2100]

Hi, I was experimenting a wee bit with text on path, There is another way, just dump the circle on a hidden layer works like a charm for me anyway Thanks for these tutorials

[@VoteLaborOut]

Thank you for sharing, it saves me many hours of exploring in the dark.

[@abdullahalabdulwahab6672]

Nice one this time Nick...hope you continue uploading this series

[@himanshusontakke8499]

would love if you share thoughts on "Inkscape with Mac".. (as I use Inkscape in Mac) learnt almost everything from you. you are like a Guru to us ! keep up the good work.. Thank You !

[@LogosByNick]

Thank you. Unfortunately I don't have much experience with Mac at all.

[@hiteshgeek]

Awesome video. I just started learning Inkscape thanks to you. In this video you might have missed the importance of superscript and subscript. They are useful in mathematical formulas like log functions and x^2 kind of functions. In case anybody need it. It might be useful.

[@tdeaguirre]

I want to learn Inkscape to draw a classical guitar and the Rosette design, then take it to a vector to shape o a Cad design. I find that the pattern along path is useful to draw a design for the Rosette. Thanks Nick.

[@1thinkhealthy]

Nick thanks a lot for this video it solved a big problem for me as a beginner. I could enter text okay but when I tried to press enter to add text to a new line my text would seem to disappear. Also when trying to flow text into a shape it would disappear also. When I watched this video and you explained space between lines I noticed that my was set at 300. The text box enlarged so long that I couldn't see the text unless I really zoom out. I set it back to 1 and it works great. I thought that I had a bug in the program before. Thanks

[@DrunkenerWitcher]

I give links to your videos to my students and anyone asking for art tutorials in general. And they all like them too.

[@LogosByNick]

Wow that's awesome to hear! Thanks!

[@AA-lq5pu]

Brilliant! You are like the guru of inkscape!

[@沈煜詳]

superscript is like power in math, how you write the 3 in 2^3 for example. subscript is when you write it at the bottom

[@LogosByNick]

Ah that makes sense. I wouldve probably just scaled the text down manually with the select tool. Thanks for the tip!

[@cutedrdave]

Logos By Nick: excellent video Nick! A good example is the term H2O, where the 2 is a subscript

[@jacobjibi]

Kinda surprised he didn't know that, but hey best guy i found.

[@godslayr]

Great video. Idea for one of your next videos. What free fonts and textures do you recommend and are a must have

[@JustXPleasure]

How do we set up your layout the way you have it? I am running v1.1 of inkscape

[@AZskylite]

2:20 Hi Nick, Random trivia ahead. I think both are used for citation notations above and below the document's base text. Along with H or V offset, it uses a smaller font size. 'Word' has an interactive-automatic feature option and you no longer have to go to the subscript setting to activate it. It will update placement and (hover) auto-links to the corresponding footnote or reference. Moons ago I thought I used this in MLA assignments. Replaced with; ('citation link')? Cheers, Constance.

[@notawildthingy]

I know this is an old tutorial but have you worked with any font managers Nick? Most popular examples are probably FontBase or Suitcase Fusion. I have a license for FontBase but I have a hard time getting activated fonts to show up in Gimp and Inkscape. Might be a good topic for a video.

[@deborc2705]

Informative tutorial. Interesting to watch. Thx

[@Grant_S_M]

Thumbs way up for this one, Nick. I'll need to re-watch a couple times and let it all sink in to my old brain :)

[@vaughanhemara3648]

Really helpful. Cheers nick

[@CHHSbass93]

Love the sound of the vacuuming and/or construction in the background, haha.

[@ryanhirst3335]

and sirens :)

[@desertstormveteran1826]

Great tutorial! Really love these lessons! I am wondering just how many aspects of the version (1.0.1) I am using have changed, and whether or not the changes are better or worse, since this wideo was uploaded 4 years ago. In particular, I noticed that "Path Effects Editor" simply says "Path Effects" with same shortcut keys. When selecting this, I do not see the same pop up options demonstrated in the video, but rather, a blank sidebar window with a plus sign that, when clicked opens a window showing titled "Live Path Effects Editor", which, in turn show a group of numerous available effects for whatever object (in this case, text) I may be working. My point is simply that I initially found this confusing because of my lack of familiarity with this program and it's features but was, after a bit of experimentation, finally able to achieve the demonstrated effect. I am overwhelmingly impressed with what I have discovered INKSCAPE is capable of, and so happy that I didn't initially purchase a familiar product like Corel Draw when searching out Graphics Design Software. Thanks again Nick for this, and other, great Tutorials for Inkscape. Look forward to learning a great deal about Inkscape and, possibly, GIMP by means of these lessons.

[@Mikaflyd]

is there a way to create a favorites for fonts? find my self searching way more for a font that I like too.

[@jmrah]

If the "Flow into frame" functionality isn't working for you, you might have to choose the Lorem Ipsum text and then select "Text->Convert to Text" first.

[@beer1for2break3fast4]

Any idea why Inkscape vs .92 won't find the fonts I downloaded to windows 10? They are correctly installed and I see them but for some reason Inkscape just doesn't see them. On my old laptop they appeared right away so I know I did the install correctly plus I can use them in word. Thanks and I love your videos btw. I think I've watched everyone of them now at least once.

[@zizalka99]

I had exactly the same problem. But I found out Nick already helped with this here: logosbynick.com/inkscape-fonts-are-missing/ . Thanks Nick!

[@joegarcia6155]

what version of inkscape are you using? Mine's doesn't look like yours. Mine is 0.91 version.

[@livingonhighvibe]

The same process to install on Mac. Open the ttf file and click download.

[@PeterKelley]

I've seen lots of content on how to kern text in design and particularly for logos. In the time since this video have you found a use for the kerning feature?

[@Mikaflyd]

thank you for this video by the way, I have learned a lot.

[@billwatters8984]

Hi, 'CONVERT TO TEXT' You've probably discovered what this is by now but I had a load of trouble with installing a small red chili image in Adobe Indesign for use in an oriental restaurant menu. I didn't have Inkscape then but it might be exactly what I needed. If the chili object can be converted to text then it can be run into a line of text and behave like a normal text character. Maybe?

[@khakcsar]

Dude the superscript and subscript is super handy in case of date or some mathenatical function.

[@loganholdaway769]

On Linux you can also install fonts by creating a folder called .fonts (the period hides the file) and extract all your font variations there all at once so you don't have to install them one at a time. It's also useful because then all your fonts are in your home folder so you can easily grab them and send them to a client or transfer them to another machine. Your computer should automatically recognize the font folder and they will show up next time you load your program just like you showed. I am interested though, does anyone know what folder in the system fonts are installed to when you install them the way shown in this video? I'd like to know.

[@marioaviles546]

Logan Holdaway most fonts are in usr/share/fonts in Debian bases systems

[@gmc9753]

You use the ~/.fonts directory when you don't have permission to install a font system-wide, or like me, if you want to keep non-standard fonts in a place where they won't get deleted when you want to reinstall the system at some point.

[@kelvinharrison74]

Thanks so much for your videos.. It took me about an hour before the video to do what you did in two seconds. Lol.

[@dogyaltshering9653]

Wow that’s quite informative

[@0.achmadzaini732]

I still can't find my font even I restart my system not just reopen my inkscape. Why like this?

[@Shin_Godzilla7289]

Thanks very much!

[@gummi4977]

Hi, Nick! This is so helpful for beginner like me. I have a question, how to import text properly from Word/another text program to Inkscape? Sometimes I just using command copy + paste from Word to Inkscape, and the result wasn't good (the paragraph's text become separate each other. It's kinda annoying but yeah... .-. )

[@srobson8875]

In one of your videos I learned how to "clip" an image into a circle. I did that to make some magnets, but the print preview and actual print didn't print the "clipped" background. I don't know how to fix that. I hope you can advise.

[@michaellewis7715]

Nick, Any good sites to download good fonts?

[@zubair531]

You are doing a great job nick !.. I learned a lot from your videos... Being a Linux user my problem development with designing is solved... Do you have any videos on green landscapes as we found some on illustrator or other software if you don't have please give some idea about making a landscapes in inkscape... Thanks ...

[@LogosByNick]

Thank you. Landscape designs are a good idea. I may do that for a future tutorial.

[@GalleryAvenueDesigns]

Hi Nick, can you tell me why some of the fonts on my system don't show up in the font list in Inkscape?

[@ryksz]

Great video, thank you for this. I have a question I can't do path operations with text and paths lets say a circle and cut out a letter from the circle, the only way that I have found to do that is by using object/clip. Is there a way to do this using path "operations"?

[@vicru5]

Simply thanks you this channel is great

[@davidnordmeyer513]

Can I use Inkscape to insert specially designed text into a photograph to create a professional-looking book cover?

[@Fenrizan]

I installed the Butler Font (.otf-File) and every text program on my computer find this font except for Inkscape. What did I do wrong?

[@android272]

I am sure someone already pointed this out but in case they have not toggle superscript and subscript is something you would do for part of your text. So if you were to have "52" as text and you selected the "2" and then toggled superscript the two would become a square or become tiny and be placed above the 5. The following link would show how this would look. Not sure how valuable this would be in an image editor but I guess it could come in handy. cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Subscript_superscript_example.png

[@digeretech7429]

Also, if you have an ellipse you want to put text on, is there a way to precisely position the text when you put it on the path? Rotating works fine for a perfect circle, but not the way I want for an ellipse.

[@shadowmistMakeup]

If I add a text to a circle and create it as an object (using object to path). Then afterwards if I notice there is an error in the text. Should i remove from path in order make the text editable?

[@digeretech7429]

I've just encountered a problem you can possibly help me out with. I have text on a path, and I curved the path so the text will also be curved. I then made my curved path invisible somehow so it wouldn't show up in my final render. I grouped all my text and other objects together, but now I want to go back and edit my text again, so I un-grouped everything, and for some reason I can't seem to find my curved path that my text is on! I know I can release it and replicate those paths, but is there an easy way to find the path that text is on? Hope that all makes sense.

[@AdamSchelenbergCom]

Nice music at the beginning!!!

[@LogosByNick]

Thanks! I liked it so much the first time I heard it that I had to email the creator and get permission to use it.

[@DiidOsman]

Hi Nick. My version .92 version doesn't have the vertical text option where the letters go down one below the others. Instead I have 2 vertical flips where the text is rotated thru 90 degrees. Any ideas? Thanks

[@curesoon]

I love your videos! They've been ALL kinds of help. I have a quick question - I'm having trouble pasting text into an Inkscape project. What am I doing wrong?!? I copied the text from an email, went to my Inkscape project, clicked on the text tool, and tried to paste it in, but I got nothing! Grrrrr! Help!!!

[@sarahallman9968]

How do you add multiple windows to the right side? Just as you have for the Align and Distribute window and the Edit Objects Colors' and.... window. I can add one but the other is just floating around.

[@adambrittain]

Nick, your tutorials are extremely helpful! I don't have a design background, so I appreciate your relaxed and informative style. Do you have any experience with PSD files? I was hoping to use a .psd file to modify some fonts, but don't know of any way to use it in inkscape as it's native to Photoshop. Thanks again for sharing your wealth of knowledge!

[@lowellyates6685]

I am drawing a circle and adding text like Amy - Navy - Airforce. My circle is large. How can I distribute the text evenly?

[@KarausMiller]

Bro, how do you use Inkscape with a vinly cutter. I can't get mine to work.

[@AdamSchelenbergCom]

I have a question related to Ubuntu. I have a lot of default font that are superfluous, and you seem to clean out those unnecessary fonts. How did you do that?

[@LogosByNick]

I'm not quite sure how to remove fonts from Ubuntu yet. I've been meaning to look into it though because I have a LOT of fonts taking up space that I'd like to get rid of.

[@LeftHandLane5]

Please make a video on how to install dark mode

[@obito7969]

Thank you so much Nick! This is the channel wchich I was looking for :D

[@keesufairies9625]

very educative

[@SouEuMesmoAqui]

Hey! On mine there is no option fore Spacing Between Lines. What can I do?

[@CorporateGuy]

Can anyone explain how to reduce line height below 0

[@ILOVEMALIBUUUU]

I'm brand new to Inkscape and have 92.4. I cannot find path effects editor, it just says path effects. When I choose it, I have no drop down for apply new effect to choose bend etc. Hoping you can help?

[@LogosByNick]

You have to have an object selected in order for those options to appear.

[@ILOVEMALIBUUUU]

@@LogosByNick thx for your response! My subject is selected. I followed exactly like the video. I do not have path effect editor to select?

[@kizzleteen]

i have a problem where every time i type and press enter instead of the text starting from below, it starts at the front of the initial text did i press something wrong?

[@dattebayoe4321]

you are my hero

[@steveeparsonsjr7929]

This is still some pretty decent content but i'm going to state it anyways there are certain fonts on windows even previous versions for the past 6 years I know of certain fonts just doesn't like inkscape on windows. I noticed your not using windows never the less. thumbs up from me & a new subscriber.

[@LogosByNick]

I've noticed that as well. I'm using Windows now myself and some fonts just don't function properly in Inkscape.

[@morgane650]

hi ! thanks for the video, where do you find your fonts? they're very cool. are they free for commercial or not?

[@LogosByNick]

Most of the fonts I use are free for commercial use. I get them from fontsquirrel.com and dafont.com. On Dafont though, just make sure to check the box that says "100% free" to only see the fonts that are free commercially.

[@mahmodabdulsalam99]

thank you

[@linda_sue]

I was watching this at .75 speed while I made notes. It worked really well for me. Then the music came on at the end! heh

[@mrmshifan]

Hi, how many fonts are installed by you in the PC? Thanks ☺

[@diegocuneo9100]

i cant use the comand flow in to frame, why its possible?

[@maybeyonas2783]

what application shows the buttons you click

[@tooalienforearth5638]

Where do you get your font downloads?

[@AliAhmed-nn8je]

please can you make tutorial for my makes photo cartoon like illustrator by inkscape i need it

[@FLT1979]

Would like to know how to save the actual text! I'm trying to save it as a .png, but it still shows as a blank canvas.

[@samterian7694]

what version Inkscape is your screen mine looks different

[@becomingbutbut3084]

I lost the text when click the Flip selected objects vertically.,why?

[@86AEDrifter]

great video. could you possibly help me out with importing a font from Dafont.com? 1. Font style is AMETHYST, downloaded it and ran it through Inkscape. around each letter has these weird crystal blocks around them, so when i try to cut through signcut, (plotter software), the letters have those designs around them. copywritten maybe? Mind you it said FREE download. So im not sure if i have to pay for the font then the weird crystal shapes go away? any help would be greatly appreciated. thank you.

[@venkatasubbaiahbodugu8236]

what is the version u r using bro?

[@lisamartinez2282]

Nick, I am unable to find a link to download dark theme

[@wondrash]

Regarding the "Convert to text" feature - according to Inkscape FAQ, it has to do with the way the flowed text is stored in the SVG format. Since flowed text is not a regular feature of SVG format this will cause problems if you use the SVG outside of Inkscape. If you do not, this command is useless.

[@calezanders3912]

Flow into frame doesn't work in mine. I've tried it repeatedly.

[@beatricechavez3281]

I just downloaded the free version and it looks nothing like this...is there another version?

[@debeeriz]

if you convert a text to path, and later on you want to return it to text can you undo it