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In order to turn something clockwise, you could either enter -10.000 (with a negative sign) in the box, or click the clockwise icon and stick with the positive 10.000. There are two little icons on the right end of where that 10.000 is: the one that’s clicked (highlighted in blue) has an arrow going counter-clockwise. How do I know it’s going counter-clockwise? My rotation is set at counter-clockwise, so I’ve told it to rotate 10 degrees (the 10.000 the arrow is pointing at) and hit the Apply button (other arrow “Apply” got half cut-off, because I’m excellent at the screenshotting arts). Go to Object > Transform to get the Transform menu to pop up.Ĭhoose the Rotate tab in the Transform panel. I’m going to start by rotating the text just a little bit, so that it isn’t going straight across the page. (Don’t worry, I’ll remind you to do that on every. That’s right, I made a backup copy of my text, and I’m working with a copy. Which is good – it gives us a lot to play around with.Īnd hey, look at that layers panel. Now you can see, the letters are all made up of points and lines. (Or you could use the shortcut Shift+Ctrl+C.) Do that by selecting all of the text, then going to Path > Object to Path in your menu. I’ve also colored it in with a light shade that'smild on the eyes, so I can see what I'm doing with the text.Īfter typing the text, the first thing I’m going to do is convert the letters into vector objects.
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Side note: I have the monster graphic on a separate layer under the text, and that layer is locked so I can’t accidentally select it or move it around. We’re going to be warping and manipulating, and any little mistakes we make will be hidden by the forgiving shape of the letters.
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For something like this, I prefer a font that’s relatively thick, and has some nice natural curvature to it – nothing too straight and formal. Check the bottom of this post for a link!įor this project, I used Sweety as my font. If you want to use this exact monster shape, you're in luck! I'm giving it away for free.
#Inkscape font to shape for free
There are tons of vector objects out there for free or cheap that you can get with a proper license.) (Remember, though – don’t just grab an image from Google and trace it that violates the copyright of the image’s creator. You could make your own, or you could get a silhouette of the critter of your choice online. The first thing I did was make this little monster shape using the pen tool. If you’re going to manipulate text like this, always try to keep your strokes their original thickness by converting the letters to vector objects, and just moving the sections/points you need to. Same thing on the right side – you have both a stretched letter, and a letter where the end points of the bars are moved. Then I converted the letter to a vector object and just moved the points of the top bar and bottom bar up and down. On the left side, first I stretched the whole letter taller than normal. As you can see here, I’ve taken the uppercase E from Arial. There’s a big difference between stretching letters and manipulating them. Cool, huh?īefore we begin, however, I’m going to make a couple of brief notes about best practices when you’re manipulating fonts. Here’s what our final result will look like. So today, I’m going to fit text into the shape of a weird little monster. Hearts, baseballs, animals – there’s no limit to the kinds of things you can put text in. I’ve heard that some of you want more Inkscape tutorials, so here’s another one! I’ve seen a few things posted to Facebook lately with text warped so that it fits inside of a shape.