The Book of Inkscape

2.8 Styling

Any object in Inkscape has some style. Style is a complex thing that includes many separate properties, from the color of the fill to the width of the stroke and to complex SVG filters that totally alter the way the object looks. Let’s look at the basics of changing the style of objects.

First of all, you should have guessed by now that the style-changing actions, as any other actions in Inkscape, always apply to the current selection. That is, before you change the style of something, you must first select that something.

Once you select the objects you want to style, the simplest thing to do is just click the color palette at the bottom of the canvas. The color you click becomes the new fill color of all selected objects. Even if the ...