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Latest Inkscape Tutorials

Design a Modern Logo with a Vector Icon Using Inkscape 1.0

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How to Import Palettes into Inkscape & Create Custom Inkscape Palettes

How to Make a Minimal Vector Portrait with Inkscape

How to Cut Out Text in Inkscape 1.0 (Inkscape Basics)

How to Design a Business Card for Print in Inkscape 1.0

Rotate Objects in Inkscape 1.0 (Inkscape Basics for Beginners)

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10 Logo Color Combinations for Your Design Projects

Looking for great color combinations to use in your graphic design or logo projects? You're in luck! I've put together 10 awesome color schemes below - which each include the...

How to Rotate Objects in Inkscape

Inkscape definitely takes some getting used to when you're first starting out with the program. One of the first tasks you may be looking to learn is how to rotate an object in...

How to Set Up Inkscape Dark Theme Inkscape 1.0 Tutorial

Inkscape 1.0 Dark Theme Set Up

The new Inkscape 1.0 is here! And there are tons of great new features, including the ability to easily customize your user interface to your liking. These UI customizations...

How to Create Curved Text in Inkscape 1.0

In this article I’ll be showing you how to easily create curved text in Inkscape. This method is quick and easy – only requiring the right sequence of steps to get the result you...

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How to Wrap Text Around a Circle in Inkscape

Want to take your design skills up a notch – whether that be for designing logos or simply creating eye-catching text pieces? In this tutorial, I’ll help you do just that by...

Inkscape vs Illustrator 3 Popular Features Compared Article

Inkscape vs. Illustrator: 3 Important Features Compared

Inkscape and Adobe Illustrator are two scalable vector graphics programs that rely on mathematical formulas to draw precise and infinitely scalable vector art and designs....

Export SVG to PNG in Inkscape

Inkscape uses the filetype .SVG by default, which stands for Scalable Vector Graphics. This filetype retains editable objects and layers that you create in your compositions,...

How to Create Center Guides in Inkscape

In this Inkscape Help Article, I'll show you how to easily create center guides in Inkscape to help you easily align objects to the center of your composition. This is a feature...

How to Import Palettes Into Inkscape

Importing palettes into Inkscape is super easy. This is mostly thanks to the fact that Inkscape supports GPL, or GIMP Palette, files. So, if you've ever created a palette in...

How to Make Inkscape's Canvas Look Like Adobe Illustrator's Artboard

How to Make Your Inkscape Canvas Look Like Adobe Illustrator’s Artboard

As a longtime Adobe Illustrator user, the toughest part of transitioning to Inkscape was opening the program and seeing an all-white canvas staring back at me. Perhaps this is...