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Plus the text remains editable, as does the amount of dilation, should you need to change things in future. Of course, it's still no substitute for a proper bold font, but might be useful to someone.

If you click the "Link" button to de-select it, you can adjust the horizontal/vertical sliders independently

Adjust the "Radius" slider until you get the desired effect - you should see the text in the main Inkscape window update in real time.

In the bottom pane pick "Dilate" from the popup list.

In the right pane pick "Morphology" from the popup menu list, then click "Add Effect".

Ensure that the checkbox is enabled to make it apply to your selected text object

In the left pane click the "New" button to create a new filter.

An alternative approach is to apply a dilation filter to the text: The biggest problem with that approach is that it implicitly converts the text to a path, so it can't be subsequently edited. At least, they should.BobSongs wrote:I have a recommendation on how to make a font "bold" that doesn't accept the bold feature. Such applications will show you raw "fair" result without any simulations. Software for professional book designers, professional typesetting, working with fonts, as you understand, don't need such replacements (I mean, fake italic, generated by software).

(The former will be good, the latter will be ugly). Obviously, there will be a difference between hand-made slanted style and software-generated slanted style. Both were created manually by font designer. Just click on the Create and edit text objects tool in the Toolbox, click on the canvas where you want the text to appear, and in the text Tool Controls Bar select the font, font size, and font style (Normal, Italic, Bold) that you want. Note, there is italic style and also slanted style. Putting text into an Inkscape drawing is as easy as it is in any word processing application. To get into this mode, double click the text. You will only see these options when you are in text edit mode. This is where you can adjust the kerning and spacing of your text. For example, as a font designer (actuall I'm not), I could create a font with this set of styles: When using the Text tool you will see a selection of text editing options at the top toolbar. In the example above, to make a screenshot of 3rd line, I just temporary removed Georgia Italic from my PC.įor sans-serif fonts (Arial, Verdana) the difference sometimes isn't very easy to determine.Īnd also, note that there is a difference between "software-generated" slanted styles and "hand-made" ones.

Georgia font in normal, italic and fake italic variants If your font don't have support of Bold or Italic, most " office-like" software (LibreOffice, Microsoft Office and many others) will simulate it.įor serif fonts (Times, Georgia) it's easy to determine the difference, because real italic looks like "written by hand", whereas "fake italic" (so-called "Slanted" or "Oblique") repeats the form of non-italic letters.