How to Create an Eye Catching Banner With Inkscape
Having a distinctive banner at the top of your webpage or paper can add a lot of 'pizzazz' to what you are trying to present. Read this wiki to learn how to do it with Inkscape. Choose a distinctive font and type something with it.
Method 1 of 1:
Alternate Method
There is a better way of doing it, so the text remains text: by using clones.
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Start the same way, writing the desired text at the desired size and using the desired font face.- This is the master text, source for cloning, you don't want it to show in the final design so it has to be placed outside of the canvas.
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Open the "Fill and Stroke" dialog and unset paint for both fill and stroke, this is a needed step in order to be able to alter the attributes for clones. -
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Create a clone of the initial text (Edit > Clone > Create clone) and put it on the canvas: -
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Change the stroke color and width as you like. -
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Adjust the font thickness by changing its stroke width. -
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Make the fill color the same as the stroke color. -
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Then create another clone of the initial text and use a temporary color (it will become the white border): -
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Increase its width for the large border. -
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Move it under the title text and make it white. -
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Get another clone of the initial text, with both fill and stroke color set as black and the same stroke width as the white border: -
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Move it under the entire stack, shifted one or two pixels down and to the right, for a drop shadow: -
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Add some blur, decrease the opacity.- The difference between the two methods are:
- We can change the initial text and the clones are updated automatically:
- Also you can change the font face or size, it will work perfectly:
- The difference between the two methods are:
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