Episode 098
Episode 098 – A Few Simple Text Treatments
by Richard Querin
In this episode, I demonstrate a few simple text treatments using Inkscape 0.46.
Nothing too technically challenging here, just a few treatments I’ve done on text in the past that I find valuable. Hopefully it will help spur people to use typography more in their designs.
At the start of this screencast I point to a great web site called The League of Moveable Type. While they only have a few fonts on there at the moment, they are committed to providing a collection of high-quality open source fonts. I commend them for that. Thanks to Troy for pointing me to that site. I’ve already found a couple of fonts there that I’ve used in some of my projects.
October 27th, 2009 at 10:50 am
[...] Episode 098 is now up. This episode demonstrates a few simple text treatments that you might find valuable in your next Inkscape design project. [...]
October 27th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
[...] http://screencasters.heathenx.org/episode-098/ a few seconds ago from web [...]
October 27th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
Nice work, Richard.
October 28th, 2009 at 5:27 am
hello,
thanks for this new episode.
i wana give you another link for some nice free font (for use) :
http://www.fontspace.com
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October 28th, 2009 at 6:57 am
@eclipse
Thanks for the link. I’ve never been to that one before.
October 28th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Another great cast. As per the apology ar the end… no worries. to be honest, I kind of assumed you guys were waiting for the next release… but that’s proving to be a longer wait than I thought as well. No need to apologize for not posting a cast.
Thanks again folks.
November 17th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Nice fonts on that website, but alas, they don’t have Windows versions, unless there is some way to convert the files?
November 17th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
@Aurelian Design
Whatcha talkin’ about? Open type fonts work in Windows XP. I have about a dozen of them installed. Am I missing something?
November 17th, 2009 at 7:23 pm
Yes. OpenType fonts do work in XP. .. However.. Inkscape 0.46 on XP will not see them (In my experience on my PC at work). I do however have a nightly build of 0.47 on my XP machine and it *does* read the opentype fonts.
November 17th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
Ah – cool! So I just install the font. YES! Had no idea those were supported. You guys are great!
November 17th, 2009 at 10:20 pm
Hmm… A few worked, but some (e. g., Flaminia) only had VFB files, and WinXP doesn’t seem to recognize those.
The license is sure laywer-speak. I assume I can use the fonts (original or modified form) in a document as long as I don’t try to distribute the font as a font (original or modified form). That the way y’all understand it?
November 18th, 2009 at 6:59 am
@Aurelian Design
Regarding font license, that’s typically how it’s done. Nobody wants there precious fonts spread around for free. It’s a shame. That’s why I like the free ones.
January 3rd, 2010 at 7:01 pm
Nice work. You’re a great teacher!
June 9th, 2010 at 11:11 am
Basics.
July 25th, 2010 at 12:07 pm
[...] some confidence by having an Adobe-like icon on my desktop. Richard Querin’s screencast on some basic text treatments and a font called Doris can help me out. Add some path differences, a few gradients and we’re [...]
August 3rd, 2010 at 6:35 am
I really enjoyed this screencast. Thanks. I’ve been able to get lots of tips from screencasters for free textures and fonts but how about patterns? Could you tell me where you got the grey floral pattern bitmap you used in the high speed intro? I did find a site where you can ‘roll your own’: http://www.patterncooler.com
BTW the music is nice too
August 3rd, 2010 at 6:53 am
@Kevin,
I can’t for the life of me find that pattern right now. I *think* it was from the gnome-look.org site and I was using it as a wallpaper. I think it came as a set in different colour schemes (olive green, dark blue, grey-black etc). If I locate it again I’ll give you a shout.