{"id":351,"date":"2010-03-13T13:59:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T18:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/365sketches.wordpress.com\/?p=351"},"modified":"2025-11-14T22:36:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T03:36:37","slug":"82-of-365-is-a-forward-slash-not-a-backslash-in-inkscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2010\/03\/13\/82-of-365-is-a-forward-slash-not-a-backslash-in-inkscape\/","title":{"rendered":"82 of 365 is a forward slash, not a backslash in #inkscape"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Forwardslash,<\/a>

Forwardslash, not backslash<\/p><\/div>\n

This is the kind of thing that makes me scream at the television. When someone is describing a URL verbally, I have found that more often than not they will call the slash used in URLs<\/a> a backslash, when it is in fact a forward slash<\/a>, or just a slash. I’m not sure why it makes me so crazy, but more than anything I think it’s the number of times I’ve seen it done incorrectly lately. So, to try to do what I can in my communities to campaign against it, you’re getting this sketch today.\u00a0 Thanks for the platform!<\/p>\n

The image uses a lot of my regular go-to effects. I use blurred dupes for shadows and glows, pencil based triangles for attention, and in this particular piece, I used the bend Live Path Effect to create the curvature on the word forwardslash. The background rectangle has a center gradient to create the shadowy corners effect.<\/p>\n

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    This is the kind of thing that makes me scream at the television. When someone is describing a URL verbally, I have found that more often than not they will call the slash used in URLs a backslash, when it is in fact a forward slash, or just a slash. I’m not sure why it […]<\/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":[76,385,901],"class_list":{"0":"post-351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-portfolio","7":"tag-arts","8":"tag-history","9":"tag-web-design-and-development","10":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3h6y2-5F","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":72,"url":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2012\/05\/19\/night-walk-in-ocnj\/","url_meta":{"origin":351,"position":0},"title":"Night walk in OCNJ","author":"lemsy","date":"2012-05-19","format":false,"excerpt":"Tonight, Melissa and I took a walk on Asbury West Avenue from one end of Ocean City to 34th street, where we stopped at Wawa and had a 10 p.m. coffee. 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