This kind of stuff just touches a nerve with me. Naïveté is fine but know the rules before you break them. “You can’t do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously.” ![]() So I leave you with the similarly applicable. There's a quote (I believe attributed to Paul Rand) regarding the democratization of graphic design afforded by the Macintosh, but it doesn't come to mind right now nor can I find it. If the hobbyist/neophyte/blind "designer" insists on creating a pseudo-bold or pseudo-italic, like stretching fonts as opposed to using the correct condensed/extended typeface, it is up to them to deface the font on their own and not Inkscape's, nor should Inkscape be an accomplice to this. Both (ugly) modifications may be performed in Inkscape at present time. Pseudo-bold merely brute-force offsets the original pseudo-italic does not even create an finessed oblique version let alone a true italic but merely slants the typeface at an angle. Pseudo-bold and pseudo-italic do not take into account the design of the original face. But they are two different designs with mathematical/aesthetic variation. Step 1 : Choosing the Right Font The first step is to choose a font that is most appealing to you. However, Step 2 is different for Windows and MAC Users. ![]() Step 1 and 3 remain the same for both Mac and Windows operating system users. When demand for a matching style came into play, the foundry created an additional bold or italic face. Adding fonts to Inkscape have been segregated into 3 simple steps. Typefaces are not to be raped over nine times due to ignorance of design rules.Ī type designer, at least since the days of Caslon and Manutio (before there was "type design"), created a typeface (a semiotic system of communication) as a standalone design. If a font family doesn't include a bold/italic face, choose another font. I don't think Inkscape has any business in this (what I consider) nonsense. ![]() The short-ish version: I sincerely hope whoever is in charge of making such decisions would reconsider this request. Trying to use the offset tool to artificially bold a font is a) difficult and b) stops it being 'text' anymore (so you can't change what it says). It should warn the user that the font is 'fake' but it should allow them to continue at their own peril. Inkscape could generate a pseudo bold and italic font for those that don't have on in the.
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