Again, I went through each letter and adjusted the rotation to come up with something like this. By increasing/decreasing the value, you can effectively tilt individual letters in a text object. It actually looks pretty neat though!Ĭharacter rotation is equally neat. Below, you'll see that I couldn't resist using Hollywood as an example, but I just went through each letter and assigned different vertical shift values. It works the same was as kerning does, except it moves the letter up or down. I've set mine to 8.00 and it seems to always give text a more epic look.įirst up, we have vertical shift.

If you've got a whole sentence, then spacing between words may be what you need. (This doesn't remove spacing, just kerning.)Īnd of course, we can't forget about word spacing, which is exactly what it sounds like. Not to fear, because Text > Remove Manual Kerns is here! Just give it a click and you'll be as good as new. Easy enough, right?īut wait, now you've gone kern crazy and messed up your precious text. Then I just set the horizontal kerning to 20.00. What I've done below is click in between 'INK' and 'SCAPE'.

On the other hand, kerning adjusts the letter spacing only between the letters you've selected. It simply increases/decreases the spacing between all of the letters. So go ahead and type some text and let's get started!īelow, I put a -12.00 letter spacing on my text to achieve this result. I rarely ever open up that dialog box because as long as you have some text selected, you'll get everything you need in the text toolbar. If you haven't already, head up to Text > Text and Font to bring up this dialog box. We'll go over these as well as a few neat tricks to really get the most from your text. Inkscape has a lot of nice built-in features for quickly editing text and font.

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