Hello All,

My name is Matt and I am starting up a bike company called Temple Cycles. I have been using Inkscape for several months now.

I am in the process of designing a headbadge, but have run into some problems.

I want to change the colour of lettering and the graphics, but when I do so, I get the pictured result. How can I fix this problem?

Many thanks in advance for any help given!

Cheers,

Matt

Welcome aboard!

Seems you used open paths with black strokes here, black filled paths with no strokes there, maybe even text object with stroke?
It could take quite some time to clean things up.

Worry not, you can still get over it in a quick way too.
Select the black headbadge objects and group them together (Ctrl+G).
Duplicate it (Ctrl+D), ungroup (Ctrl+Shift+G), convert objects to paths (Ctrl+Shift+C),
convert strokes to paths (Ctrl+Alt+D), then add paths together (Ctrl++).
After that, break apart the resulting path (Ctrl+Shift+K), deselect the biggest black path by Shift+clicking on it,
and delete the unnecessary paths (Delete).
Then, select the previously deselected path, move it to bottom (End), add the desired orange fill and preferably a thin black outline to avoid rendering issues.

This way you can have the whole drawing coloured.

Want to change the lettering's colour?
Convert it to path (Ctr+Shift+C), ungroup characters (Ctrl+Shift+G), combine them together (Ctrl+K),
convert stroke to path (Ctrl+Alt+C), add a vivid fill and lower the opacity to like 50%, and break the path apart (Ctrl+Shift+K).
Then delete unnecessary paths, and combine the rest back together (Ctrl+K).
This way the lettering will be one compound path with no stroke but fill, which you can change to another colour if you like.

Wow Lazur! How you get all that from a JPG?

Although, those are very good generic instructions, which will probably allow TempleCycles to do what he wants. Probably.

Assuming the fills were set to all objects the same time



parts marked with red had black fill with no strokes,
paths marked with green are open paths with a black stroke,
and the lettering does appear to have a black stroke in the coloured version -marked with blue-.

Converting strokes to outlines can be messy at the nodes.
May need a bit of manual editing too, especially with the letters.
(Not to mention text object had a rendering bug in older versions, when a stroke was added.)