: Equalize (reset) stroke width along a path in Inkscape Like a million people out in the real world, I do not understand how strokes work in Inkscape, and do not have the time or dedication

@Murphy569

I solved it using Scribblemacher's bonus tip!
You just need to go to the XML editor of that shape (select it and press Ctrl+Shift+X), then select the last item in the Value box (the one begins with "matrix") and set the first 4 numbers to 1,0,0,1 and press Set.



Usually the shape will be scaled and moved, but it would 'equalize' the stroke

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@Connie430

What probably happened is you had a shape selected when using the Drawing tool. When you select the drawing tool, there is some context-sensitive options at the top, and one of them is shape. What this feature really does is apply a filter to your path (it also may swap fill and stroke).

You can remove it by clicking Path → Remove Path Effect. If the result fills in the blank space in the shape, open Fill and Stroke Ctrl+Shift+F and make sure that fill is set to none and the stroke paint is set correctly.

Bonus Tip:
If you ever see something in Inkscape and you can’t figure out why it’s being rendered that way, select the object and inspect the SVG by opening up the XML editor Ctrl+Shift+X. Often you can diagnose something by looking at its attributes. In this case, you can see that inkscape:path-effect is set, which means a path effect was applied.

Edit: In this case, the issue was a matrix transformation. If you are using the XML editor to try to diagnose why something is happening, use the SVG 1.1 specification to learn more about what different attributes and elements are used for. In addition to the official W3c spec, the MDN also has some great information about SVGs

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