The Secret To Creating Perfect Outlines In Inkscape

[@mytree123]

WOW! Thank you!!!😊

[@BarbraManaT]

People like you make the world go around. Bless

[@Reesearoon]

This is a gold nugget. You have NO idea how much time this will save me, and thanks for making it simple so even I can understand!

[@michaelsalais7393]

I did get confused about the difference between 'outline' and 'stroke'. Excellent tute, Nick.

[@dfcastelao]

Man, have I overlooked that ‘order’ option. Great video! Clear and concise.

[@CaramelMood06]

Wait what?? I literally went to look for this kind of tutorial in your channel yesterday because I have a task to do that require outlines. Now you posted it??!! Wow, what a coincidence lol. Thank you for this, Nick!

[@NazmusLabs]

No such a thing as a coincidence 😅 May Allah (S.W.T.) guide you and bestow upon you His Blessings; Ameen.

[@ravenm1165]

just learned something new again! (the stroke ordering options)

[@TrongNghia1304]

Not really the tutorial I needed but the tutorial I deserve right now. SIR!

[@ForgottenDetails]

Excellent lesson Nick! Thank you.

[@adadelavega505]

I love and apréciate your videos dude plz keep up the good work 🙏

[@RonNVids]

Yet another great tutorial. Thanks for all the useful content!

[@marielanning6956]

Very helpful. Thank you. Do you have a video on adding 2 or more outlines?

[@kon_radar]

I wanted to have multiple strokes for a font. a) the text b) a simple rounded outline c) a slight vanilla shine on the back d) a black transparent shadow The trick I used was to clone the text object in the Path Effects, and apply simple strokes for the clones. The shininess and the shadow required a fill in addition to the stroke, before applying blur for them. b) c) and d) were similar to each other. One object had a bigger stroke-outline than the other.

[@MusicalBox]

Very useful. Thanks Nick!

[@michaelsalais7393]

So inspiring. Thanks, Nick!

[@AnilAtluriWord]

Good one! Thank you Nick.

[@kairu_b]

I learned so much, thanks sir

[@StupidRobotFightingLeague]

Very handy cheers.

[@duvanr]

Great video... Caught me off guard with the change of voice tone on 4:05 lol

[@CelticOneDesign]

That order option is quite important for my uses with markers.

[@gura_dura]

THANK YOUU NICK!!!

[@DaniMarchena]

thanks, that was very helpful

[@jocargua]

Excellent !!!!

[@JohnColgan.]

Great alternative to offset, nice trick

[@1SteveSmith]

Thank you.

[@DanoLefourbe]

Damn, I've been using outlines for years, and never knew that scaling option. Always did it manually... I feel so silly. Thx for the tutorial.

[@HDTwiZ]

THANK YOU!

[@diecastchaser164]

Another great tip!

[@David_Cau]

❤ simple and effective

[@danielespinosa6926]

Brilliant! Tried right now. Perfect. BTW just curious to know what font that is...

[@LogosByNick]

It's called Heather Oliver

[@pixelrancher]

Cool. Thanks.

[@ayazyousaf1929]

very informative video, 👍

[@mon0theist_tv]

The shift+click to outline doesn't work for me 🤔 doing it from the Stroke menu doesn't work either

[@canakyamuhammad5548]

thanks! ❤❤

[@Kira.i.]

what do you do if you wanna make them two separate objects?

[@ameencoding]

Great work. I’ll appreciate if you make a video of how to make custom text logo.

[@AndjaaaXD]

Which video or videos did you demonstrate how to use offset? I remember learning about it from you last year, but I can't find which video it is. Thanks!

[@julianse829]

can i separate the outline from the object?

[@f0bdollar]

What is the name of the font you're using please?

[@ItsNish101]

How did you get your workspace layout like this?

[@LogosByNick]

"Document Properties" Control + Shift + D and change the page color

[@johndoeee888]

Hello, what font are you using?? I like it.

[@kimberlyduganne6279]

How would you make this into 2 separate cut files svg for Cricut? Like the fill as one cut file & the outline as another?

[@kerenferrisandco]

is there a way to have the white be transparent while maintaining the outline look?

[@LogosByNick]

Yes but you would have to convert the stroke to a path, ungroup it, then use the white text to do a "Path > Difference" from the outline.

[@yacineyacine9552]

Hello Nick. I have a small problem with the text. The next line does not work for me and I cannot move to the next line when I press the enter button. I tried many methods and they did not work. Can you help me?

[@MihaiNeacsu]

I wonder if you can add two strokes to an object in inkscape :). I have a dotted line, which is a bezier line with no fill and that dotted stroke and I want to add another stroke to it. Right now I transform the stroke to a path, then add a stroke to it, but that's a workaround.

[@Astronomynatureandmusic]

What would be your objective? Point is, you want to add a stroke to something that's already a stroke. The vector object is a line, so that is not going to have a stroke because a line is mathematically just that: an object with length and curve, but no width. As Inkscape allows you to add width by altering the stroke size, that is what you can get out if it. I'd advise to create a path from the line and work on from there.

[@MihaiNeacsu]

Short description of the goal: draw a bezier curve with a double stroke, without using Stroke to path :). I'm drawing a bezier curve on top of an image (a map) and I turn fill off and stroke to dashes, let's say yellow. I like that I can modify the curve later on using the nodes of the bezier path. But I also want to add another stroke so the current dashed line will be more visible - this "second stroke" would be 1-2px black for example. What I am doing right now is making the dashed curve/line, turn it into a path using Stroke to Path, then add stroke to it again. It works fine but at the end I can no longer reposition the curve/line using the initial nodes of the bezier curve. As a workaround, before using Stroke to Path, I duplicate the bezier curve and keep one as a backup in case I need to move the nodes later on. I looked at Path Effects and Extensions for a way to simulate a second stroke on a Bezier curve and couldn't find anything, but I have not looked extensively :).

[@LogosByNick]

In Inkscape it's not possible unless you make a duplicate copy and make the stroke larger so that it appears to be a second stroke, or another way would be converting the stroke to a path as you mentioned.

[@MihaiNeacsu]

I don't think the first method works in my scenario. I would have preferred that. I have a dashed line created with the bezier pen, no fill, dashed stroke. To it, I wish to add another stroke, so basically outlines around each dash. And keep the nodes from the original bezier line :)

[@Astronomynatureandmusic]

@@MihaiNeacsu All right, now you have two similar answers: it is not possible :)

[@Byfzstudio]

Hi Nick, I know that coreldraw has some features that we can generate agenda files there and I’m wondering if it is possible to do it using Inkscape as well. Do you know anything about that? Thanks

[@EdwardRestrepo]

Hi,¿what's the name of the font you used in this video?,thanks.

[@LogosByNick]

"Heather Oliver"

[@Stratelier]

I kind of wish Text objects used MSF order just by default -- I remember having precisely this difficulty on multiple occasions in earlier (pre-1.0) Inkscape versions. I'd generally just duplicate the object, then set the stroke on the lower object only, and the fill on the upper object.

[@ahmadsyaoqi1034]

but how with logo with multiple shape?

[@billyjoeriquez151]

Hi Mr.Nick hope you can see this. I'm having a problem in Inkscape why is it crashing? I am using 1.3 version.

[@realchrisma]

Inkscape would earn more users if they made these settings default.

[@veryrudeguy]

Struggling to fill the holes in letters like A O e those small holes dont want to fill in. Not only that it gives some random white/transparent artifacts around things like "."

[@AM-jw1lo]

Wow i would be interested in how your icons in Fill and Stroke are so large, mine are tiny and i cannot make out shapes of them. Yours are huge compared to what i see.

[@theresalimas4717]

This did not work for me when I selected the word then shift and color nothing happened. I’m not the most computer friendly but that was pretty easy instructions and it didn’t work 😢

[@bertusattila]

❤❤❤

[@euansmith3699]

Say, WHAAAAAAAAT! 😲