: Fill enclosed path in Inkscape I'm having difficulties with a really basic concept in Inkscape. How do I fill an enclosed path that has a line going into it? I've combined the original two

@Pierce403

I am brand new to Inkskape and I found this question as the first search result for inkskape closed path fill. Unfortunately, the paint bucket added aliasing artifacts and I spent 15 further minutes trying to find the fill tool. For future searchers:

Fill a closed path by selecting the path and clicking a color in the pallete at bottom

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@Tiffany317

Once we had combined paths we may not be able to fill an an enclosed area as expected:



In the combined path above the line on the lower right will also be treated as a part of a filled area, leading to the filling artifact.

To overcome this we should apply fills on non-combined paths, or we have to break apart the objects before we apply the fill:



If this is not possible we may use the Bucket Fill tool (Shift + F7 ). This tool will create an additional filled object within an enclosed area (see also this question):

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