{"id":2299,"date":"2009-02-25T17:49:29","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T22:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=2299"},"modified":"2009-02-25T17:51:31","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T22:51:31","slug":"inkscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=2299","title":{"rendered":"Inkscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned in my <a href=\"?p=2295\">previous post<\/a> that I need a vector version of my site logo.  Someone identified the font I needed, and others suggested Inkscape.  I&#8217;ve never done any vector drawing before, and my logo is kind of complex.  It has a three-part angled gradient, an outline, a reflection, and faux-perspective shadows. I was prepared for a steep learning curve and a lot of work.<\/p>\n<p>Forty minutes after starting Inkscape for the first time:<\/p>\n<p><table width='600'  cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/logo_part.jpg' class='insetimage' width='600' alt='logo_part.jpg' title='logo_part.jpg'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Amazing.  The entire logo, done, in about the same amount of time it took me to make the original logo, using a program I&#8217;d been using for years. As should be evident from my site design, I am <em>not<\/em> a student of the graphic arts. The fact that I could get so far so quickly says a lot about the quality of the Inkscape interface.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for all the helpful suggestions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned in my previous post that I need a vector version of my site logo. Someone identified the font I needed, and others suggested Inkscape. I&#8217;ve never done any vector drawing before, and my logo is kind of complex. It has a three-part angled gradient, an outline, a reflection, and faux-perspective shadows. I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}