
Outline Text with Inkscape To outline text with Inkscape, select the text with the Select Tool, then hold Shift on the keyboard and click on one of the colors in the color palette at the bottom of the screen.įollow the instructions below to learn how to place an outline around your text using Inkscape. This is a relatively simple process, making this an excellent beginner tutorial for any first-time user of Inkscape. Outlining text with Inkscape is simply a matter of adding a stroke around the text object, setting the size, color, and changing one of the settings so that the outline (or “stroke” as it’s called) goes along the outside of the letters as opposed to the inside. In this lesson you will learn how to outline text with Inkscape so that your text can have a distinguished look that jumps off the page. Inkscape makes for a fantastic tool to work with when stylizing text, and today I’ll be demonstrating one of the many ways in which you can do so.
