I have searched the internet and cannot find out how to select the color white.
I will be using the bezier tool.
I clicked on the colors along the bottom. That didn't work.
I tried all the buttons in STROKE PAINT tab (RGB, HSL, etc), no white found.
Then I clicked on a line, selected STROKE at the bottom, and dialed something approximating white using the WHEEL, but I have to do that for every line ... there has to be an easier way.
Roy here. Select the line that you want to color color. Then Shift-click on the white color swatch in the Color palette at the bottom of the work window. Shift-clicking a color swatch works on the stroke of an object. If your object is a line, Inkscape considers it a path with a stroke, but with no color fill. You don't want a fill with a color. You want a stroke with a color. So, remember that just plain clicking on a color swatch gives you a fill, shift-clicking gives you a stroke (and not the type that sends you to hospital). I hope this helps.
By the way, I'm writing a tutorial series for people starting out with Inkscape, like me. I talk about fill and stroke colors in Tutorial 5. You'll find it at:
Beginners' Questions How do I draw a white line
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I have searched the internet and cannot find out how to select the color white.
I will be using the bezier tool.
I clicked on the colors along the bottom. That didn't work.
I tried all the buttons in STROKE PAINT tab (RGB, HSL, etc), no white found.
Then I clicked on a line, selected STROKE at the bottom, and dialed something approximating white using the WHEEL, but I have to do that for every line ... there has to be an easier way.
Doubleclick the tool's icon to get to its settings.
Hi,
Roy here. Select the line that you want to color color. Then Shift-click on the white color swatch in the Color palette at the bottom of the work window. Shift-clicking a color swatch works on the stroke of an object. If your object is a line, Inkscape considers it a path with a stroke, but with no color fill. You don't want a fill with a color. You want a stroke with a color. So, remember that just plain clicking on a color swatch gives you a fill, shift-clicking gives you a stroke (and not the type that sends you to hospital). I hope this helps.
By the way, I'm writing a tutorial series for people starting out with Inkscape, like me. I talk about fill and stroke colors in Tutorial 5. You'll find it at:
https://roy-torley.github.io/Inkscape_Tutorial/Tutorial05/Tutorial05.html
The table of contents is at:
https://roy-torley.github.io/Inkscape_Tutorial/Inkscape_Tutorial_Contents.html
I hope this helps, too. Good luck!
Roy
Roy,
Unfortunately, that is not working for me. I created the line with the Bezier tool.
Maybe you should adjust a background color other that the default "white" to see a white line on a white surface:
Thanks PixelPest! That helped!