: Coloring In An Outline Font In Inkscape I have a specific font that I am using for a new Logo. The font is called Dystopian Future, and is a grungy Outline font, which looks great, but doesn't

@Speyer780

Type text >
with Paint bucket in default mode >
Select the letter's empty center >
turns grey >
select a color (green) from swatch >
fill turns green -

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@Reiling762

At least for your font, you can use the following trick which is fast but a bit rough around the edges:

Long version


Select your text and duplicate it ctrl+d.
Convert the duplicate to a path shift+ctrl+c.
Completely ungroup the path shift+ctrl+g (maybe multiple times).
Union all paths ctrl++ (not really necessary yet, but more convenient, since you won't have to reselect the individual paths later).
Break everything apart shift+ctrl+k.
Union everything ctrl++.
Select a color and move the new object behind the font.


Short version

Select the text and press
ctrl+d
ctrl++
shift+ctrl+c
shift+ctrl+g
ctrl++
shift+ctrl+k
ctrl++
Select color
end (yes, it's also the last step, but I mean the key.)

Example

Below is an example of the described method, where the created object was colored blue.


With rough around the edges I meant that the scratches around the characters now also have a background. You could remove said background after the break apart step and before the last ctrl++, but that would be a lot of work.

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@Kimberly620

I don't have a font which is in itself outline, nor do the fonts bring an outline variant like bold or italic to experiment with.

I guess putting the text on a monochrome background, and filling it with the filling tool, is the best way to solve the problem, which would be 10 fillings for the example text.

For longer texts, or if you use it very often, maybe copying the font and changing it, might be a better option.

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