Thanks for responding, although converting the objects to paths did not make any difference (I'm pretty sure I've tried that already, but I did it again just in case). I was puzzled by the fact that the only portion of the "696" that was showing up in Cricut (in black) were the little eyel...

Hi, very new to Inkscape, so apologies in advance for being technically inaccurate. I'm trying to upload an SVG to Cricut Design Space, and there's something I'm missing about the color of an object/path in Inkscape. In the attached SVG - which I found on the web an edited to my needs - the number &...