I’ve also colored it in with a light shade that'smild on the eyes, so I can see what I'm doing with the text.Īfter typing the text, the first thing I’m going to do is convert the letters into vector objects. Side note: I have the monster graphic on a separate layer under the text, and that layer is locked so I can’t accidentally select it or move it around. We’re going to be warping and manipulating, and any little mistakes we make will be hidden by the forgiving shape of the letters. For something like this, I prefer a font that’s relatively thick, and has some nice natural curvature to it – nothing too straight and formal. Check the bottom of this post for a link!įor this project, I used Sweety as my font. If you want to use this exact monster shape, you're in luck! I'm giving it away for free. There are tons of vector objects out there for free or cheap that you can get with a proper license.) (Remember, though – don’t just grab an image from Google and trace it that violates the copyright of the image’s creator. You could make your own, or you could get a silhouette of the critter of your choice online. The first thing I did was make this little monster shape using the pen tool. If you’re going to manipulate text like this, always try to keep your strokes their original thickness by converting the letters to vector objects, and just moving the sections/points you need to. Same thing on the right side – you have both a stretched letter, and a letter where the end points of the bars are moved. Then I converted the letter to a vector object and just moved the points of the top bar and bottom bar up and down.
On the left side, first I stretched the whole letter taller than normal. As you can see here, I’ve taken the uppercase E from Arial.
There’s a big difference between stretching letters and manipulating them. Cool, huh?īefore we begin, however, I’m going to make a couple of brief notes about best practices when you’re manipulating fonts. Here’s what our final result will look like. So today, I’m going to fit text into the shape of a weird little monster. Hearts, baseballs, animals – there’s no limit to the kinds of things you can put text in. I’ve heard that some of you want more Inkscape tutorials, so here’s another one! I’ve seen a few things posted to Facebook lately with text warped so that it fits inside of a shape.
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