Hi,

I have just started using Incscape, and stumbled into the first problem. How do you change the colour of text?

I need to change from black to white (Times New Roman), so I went to Stroke Paint, selected flat colour, selected 255,255,255,255 (white) but as you can see there are dark areas that remain in the middle of text.



So my questions:
1) Am I doing it correctly?
2) For colour selection, is there a simple grid with 10-20 basic colours? I can only see RGBA, Wheel and other complex options to choose colour.
3) Is there a way to adjust the width of font, because in the example above, the text looks a bit too thick for Times New Roman.

Thanks a lot!

Amphibia07 wrote:So my questions:
1) Am I doing it correctly?
2) For colour selection, is there a simple grid with 10-20 basic colours? I can only see RGBA, Wheel and other complex options to choose colour.
3) Is there a way to adjust the width of font, because in the example above, the text looks a bit too thick for Times New Roman.

1) No.
2) Yes.
3) After dealing with (1) and (2) I suspect this won't be a problem anymore.

More specifically, you probably don't want to change the stroke colour, but rather the fill. And the easiest way to do that is using the colour swatches at the bottom of the main Inkscape window.

1) Select your text.
2) Click on the colour you want it to be filled with.
3) Shift-Click on the "X" at the left of the colour swatches to remove the stroke colour.

With the stroke removed, you'll probably find that the thickness of the font is okay.

See parts 3 & 4 of my Inkscape tutorials, whcih cover the status bar and the colour swatches: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=11981

Thanks so much, Xav! It worked like a charm, and no issues anymore. Somehow fill colour associates with background colour from me, so I didn't realize I had to change fill.

Objects in Inkscape have a fill, which sets the main "body" colour of the object, and a stroke, which sets the colour of the "outline". The stroke also has a thickness, and it's drawn on top of the fill, half inside the object and half outside. So if you set a 2px stroke, the visible fill will apparently shrink by 1px all round, and the size of the object will grow by 1px all round.

That explains what you were seeing - the black in the middle was the fill colour being largely obscured by the thick stroke.