{"id":139,"date":"2010-01-20T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T15:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/365sketches.wordpress.com\/?p=139"},"modified":"2020-07-11T15:00:13","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T19:00:13","slug":"30-of-365-is-a-letter-based-teddy-bear-inkscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2010\/01\/20\/30-of-365-is-a-letter-based-teddy-bear-inkscape\/","title":{"rendered":"30 of 365 is a letter based teddy bear #inkscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_141\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/201001201.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-141\" data-attachment-id=\"141\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/20100120-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/201001201.png?fit=500%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20100120\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;20100120&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Text based teddy bear&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/201001201.png?fit=500%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-141\" title=\"20100120\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/201001201.png?resize=500%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"20100120\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/201001201.png?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/201001201.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-141\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Text based teddy bear<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This is one of my favorite exercises &#8212; manipulating text by placing, overlapping, flipping, sizing and rotation to apparently form some other object, especially easy using the text and selection tools found in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Inkscape\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"https:\/\/inkscape.org\/\">Inkscape<\/a>. Fonts are art in and of themselves. Using this technique really celebrates the beautiful joints of well designed fonts. In this case, I made a teddy bear using the characters O, 3, E, ), D, and C. The only forms which are not text are the claws, which probably shouldn&#8217;t be on a teddy bear anyway. Oh, bother.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top:10px;height:15px;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of my favorite exercises &#8212; manipulating text by placing, overlapping, flipping, sizing and rotation to apparently form some other object, especially easy using the text and selection tools found in Inkscape. Fonts are art in and of themselves. Using this technique really celebrates the beautiful joints of well designed fonts. In this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3654],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-portfolio","7":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3h6y2-2f","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":638,"url":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2010\/05\/17\/147-of-365-is-something-brilliant-in-inkscape-typography-design\/","url_meta":{"origin":139,"position":0},"title":"147 of 365 is something brilliant in #Inkscape #typography #design","author":"lemsy","date":"2010-05-17","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, so sometimes a sketch is just about playing with text as shape. I started typing out the words \"something brilliant\" in the hopes of coming up with something brilliant, and brilliant or not, this is what I made. Inkscape works with text and shapes in amazing ways, and with\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;portfolio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/category\/portfolio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Something brilliant","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/20100517somethingbrilliant.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5704,"url":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2010\/08\/08\/229-of-365-is-a-set-of-monograms-for-friends-typography-inkscape\/","url_meta":{"origin":139,"position":1},"title":"A set of monograms for friends by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #typography","author":"lemsy","date":"2010-08-08","format":false,"excerpt":"So this was inspired by the recent sketch of my longtime monogram as well as a conversation with Sarah Badawy about how some combinations of letters work better than others. In order to do each of these, I went through the same workflow in Inkscape each time: Using the text\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;portfolio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/category\/portfolio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"A set of monograms for friends by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #typography","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/20100807friendlogos.png?fit=809%2C500&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/20100807friendlogos.png?fit=809%2C500&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/20100807friendlogos.png?fit=809%2C500&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/20100807friendlogos.png?fit=809%2C500&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5929,"url":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2011\/03\/24\/93-of-365-is-a-study-for-a-heart-3-typography-inkscape\/","url_meta":{"origin":139,"position":2},"title":"83 of 365 is a study for a heart","author":"lemsy","date":"2011-03-24","format":false,"excerpt":"I had a very close friend ask me to do a typography study of the text-based heart that we use in chats, in the form of less than 3 (<3). Not surprisingly some fonts work far better than others for conveying a heart. tags:\u00a0heart, study, typography, Inkscape, open source, creative\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;portfolio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/category\/portfolio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Heart study","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/201103224.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/201103224.png?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/201103224.png?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5009,"url":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2013\/12\/17\/used-believe-john-lemasney-via-lemasney-com\/","url_meta":{"origin":139,"position":3},"title":"I used to believe by John LeMasney via lemasney.com","author":"lemsy","date":"2013-12-17","format":false,"excerpt":"I decided to illustrate a meditative thought I've had recently. There is a change emerging in my point of view, and I thought that I would express it in Inkscape. I added the text in two pieces, one for each line. I used Bebas Neue, one of my favorite title\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;brand&quot;","block_context":{"text":"brand","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/category\/consulting\/brand\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"I used to believe by John LeMasney via lemasney.com","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/I-used-to-believe-by-John-LeMasney-via-lemasneydotcom.png?fit=1200%2C700&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/I-used-to-believe-by-John-LeMasney-via-lemasneydotcom.png?fit=1200%2C700&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/I-used-to-believe-by-John-LeMasney-via-lemasneydotcom.png?fit=1200%2C700&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/I-used-to-believe-by-John-LeMasney-via-lemasneydotcom.png?fit=1200%2C700&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/I-used-to-believe-by-John-LeMasney-via-lemasneydotcom.png?fit=1200%2C700&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":48807,"url":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2025\/12\/04\/dftnd-using-inkscape-to-repair-ai-images\/","url_meta":{"origin":139,"position":4},"title":"DFTND: Using Inkscape to Repair AI images","author":"lemsy","date":"2025-12-04","format":false,"excerpt":"Hi, friends! This week, I'm using Inkscape to repair AI-based images from Gemini (Nano Banana). We use the text tool for the first time in the series, the dropper tool, the gradient tool, and we place text along a path. Check it out, and let me know what you might\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;classes and presentations&quot;","block_context":{"text":"classes and presentations","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/category\/portfolio\/classes-presentations\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"May all beings have peace","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/May-you-have-peace-nature-scaled.png?fit=770%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/May-you-have-peace-nature-scaled.png?fit=770%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/May-you-have-peace-nature-scaled.png?fit=770%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/May-you-have-peace-nature-scaled.png?fit=770%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1331,"url":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2010\/06\/27\/188-of-365-is-about-appearances-in-inkscape-angels\/","url_meta":{"origin":139,"position":5},"title":"188 of 365 is about appearances in #Inkscape #angels","author":"lemsy","date":"2010-06-27","format":false,"excerpt":"I recently got a request from repeat requester and friend Shannon who asked about a sketch thusly: Challenge:Punked out angel wings, with the caption \"I only LOOK like an angel\" Inspiration: A white, fluffy fru-fru dog who's well-deserved nickname is Punk (owned by a good and mutual friend of ours\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;portfolio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/category\/portfolio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Looks like an angel","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/20100627likeanangel.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/20100627likeanangel.png?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/20100627likeanangel.png?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45121,"href":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/45121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}