My earliest professional positions were developing graphic and publishing software. I humbly had a job laser printing direct mail (aka Junk Mail) between my High School graduation and starting at University. But a better answer is that started working with fonts on a laser printer the size of a small SUV in the fall of 1981. What do I know about Fonts? Inkscape? TinkerCAD? Enough to be dangerous. If not check out my article The Simple (and Free) Way to Make 2D Art Into 3D Prints. This article assumes you have used this products or something similar and have the software downloaded and installed. TinkerCAD – Web based all you need to do is set up a free account ( ) The last two letters appended to the code determine the opacity or ‘alpha value’ (just like the slider labeled A).Inkscape – Runs on Windows, Mac and Linux ( ) In case you were wondering about that little field labelled RGBA in the bottom right corner of the dialog: it is the name of the color in hexadecimal code, as it is used in a web page’s CSS. Note that the stroke is still completely opaque. If we lower the alpha value for the fill, we can see that the sun is about to rise behind our green mountains. The higher the value for alpha, the more opaque your color will be. ‘A’ stands for ‘Alpha’, which is the opacity value of the selected color. When you’re happy with it, don’tĮvery color chooser also has a field labelled A at the bottom. Will immediately be displayed on the canvas. Always remember to first select your object! The result To select your color, click or click-and-drag with the mouse in the different Our mountains are light blue at the beginning. The color wheel offers an alternative way to select HSV values. The same light blue color in CMYK color space, which is commonly used in printers. It shows how colors are perceived under light. Īs with HSL, the HSV model is used for human perception of colors. The HSL color space is modelled after the way humans perceive colors.
įor choosing a color for your first drawings, you can select any of the firstĪ light blue color in RGB color space, which is mostly used in monitors. The CMS color selector is reserved for advanced uses, and only makes sense in combination with the open source desktop publishing software Scribus. Many people find the HSL color selector the easiest to use. This book will not go into the details of the differences between these modes, but there are different use cases for them. HSL (Hue, Saturation, Lightness), HSV (Hue, Saturation, Value),ĬMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Key/Black), Wheel (Color wheel) and In both the Fill and the Stroke paint tabs, you will findĦ different color selection modes: RGB (Red, Green, Blue), We will now take aĪt the top of the dialog, there are 3 different tabs: for the Fill, Select a color in the Fill and Stroke dialog. When the palette does not contain the color you would like to use, you can Shift + Ctrl + F Object ‣ Fill and Stroke
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