{"id":1390,"date":"2010-06-30T12:05:49","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T16:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/365sketches.org\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2020-07-11T18:49:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T22:49:02","slug":"191-of-365-is-a-hot-wet-sloppy-mess-in-inkscape-type-grunge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2010\/06\/30\/191-of-365-is-a-hot-wet-sloppy-mess-in-inkscape-type-grunge\/","title":{"rendered":"191 of 365 is a hot wet sloppy mess in #Inkscape #type #grunge"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Serious issue<\/p><\/div>\n

Clearly, we have a serious issue. Well, maybe not clearly. So this is really to just explore the beautiful per letter orientation capabilities when you do a conversion from text to path. You have lots of capabilities even as text to do fine kerning, letter spacing, and even rotation, but I find it a lot easier to do something like this by making the text, converting to path (ctrl-shift-c), ungrouping (ctrl-u), which makes all of the text into individual path shapes. You could select a string and make them into a group or single path to manipulate in that way, but lots of options, regardless. Hope you liked it!<\/p>\n

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Clearly, we have a serious issue. Well, maybe not clearly. So this is really to just explore the beautiful per letter orientation capabilities when you do a conversion from text to path. You have lots of capabilities even as text to do fine kerning, letter spacing, and even rotation, but I find it a lot […]<\/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":[363,365,411,1995,865],"class_list":{"0":"post-1390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-portfolio","7":"tag-graphic-design","8":"tag-graphics","9":"tag-inkscape","10":"tag-kerning","11":"tag-vector-based","12":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3h6y2-mq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"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":1390,"position":0},"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. 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