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Using Text in Inkscape
We’ve been making a lot of custom shapes up to this point. Now, we’re ready to start adding some text to the mix. This could take the form of fancy titles and labels for our graphics, or entire paragraphs of text. Inkscape can do it all, and this chapter is dedicated to adding and styling text in its various incarnations.
We will cover the following topics in this chapter:
- Installing new fonts
- The Text tool
- Font Collections
- The Text and Font dialog
- Understanding variable fonts
- Text on a curve
- Flowing paragraphs into shapes
- Spell check and other handy Text tools
Installing new fonts
Throughout this chapter, I’ll ...
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