The Secret To Creating Perfect Outlines In Inkscape

In this tutorial I'll be going over how to apply an outline to text in Inkscape using strokes. The problem with using strokes is that by default, the stroke is applied to the inside of the text, which distorts its appearance. Changing a single setting in the Fill & Stroke menu though can correct that.

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[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!

[dfcastelao]

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

[michaelsalais]

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

[CaramelMood]

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!

[TrongNghia]

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

[RonNVids]

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

[CelticOneDesign]

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

[adadelavega]

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

[JohnColgan.]

Great alternative to offset, nice trick

[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.

[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.

[duvanr]

Great video...

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

[marielanning]

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

[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!

[danielespinosa]

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

[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.

[montheist_tv]

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

[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