You might also wonder if there is an underline option, but there isn't.

This may sound weird, but there is really no way of knowing you can do the aforementioned tricks in Inkscape unless you read a third party manual. The way I used to have different font styles in the same line was to clone and edit the original text object. The method for doing this was actually quite simple, but invaluable when you're dealing with some typesetting in Inkcape. You probably already knew the key combinations I presented here, but you possibly did not know you could use them after selecting some characters in text objects. I've illustrated this process in the following screenshots:Īpplying an italic or oblique font style to a selection of text.

Deselect the text to watch the end result.

Select a few characters within the text object.

Create a text object and type some text.

By reading the documentation I found out that you can use the obvious key combination Ctrl + B to apply a bold style to the selected text. The feature for applying a boldface font style on a selected set of characters is actually completely hidden from the application window. These settings work on the full object however, and you can't apparently change the font style for only a selection of the characters. In the Inkscape Text And Font dialog, accessible using Ctrl + Shift + T you can set the font and style for a text object. In this article, I want to explain how you can apply the following transformations or font styles to individual characters, or character selections, with a single Inkscape text object:įont Styles Make a bold statement, partly After you've read through this article you'll probably know why you didn't already know how to manually kern characters or set the baseline for them. The problem I address in this article is because the discoverability of the functions and features in Inkscape is virtually non-existent. At the time of writing, the most current version of Inkscape is 0.43 and later versions should exhibit the features I'm presenting here.

I used Inkscape even before the project, or fork, was started, when the main codebase was still called Sodipodi. I wrote this article because I wondered for a while why Inkscape apparently wouldn't let me make inline text and font changes to text objects in my drawings. Inkscape Text Tricks Introduction Background

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