Blend tool in Inkscape - gradient along the path tutorial

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Published 2022-07-13
Blend tool in Inkscape
Stroke gradient
gradeint along the path
who to replicate blend tool from illustrator

All Comments (15)
  • You are a BEAST! thank you so much for this tutorial, it was exactly what I needed :D
  • @CRogers
    Nice! Pro tip: When assigning colours from the palette to your circles, you can just hit TAB to jump to the next circle you made before sampling the next color. This saves having to switch tools over and over.
  • @n305
    Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
  • @rolandixor
    Great tutorial! Definitely going to make use of this one.
  • @TechieSewing
    Thank you, I'm going to try this way tomorrow :)
  • @absolutewisp
    Seems really weird this isn't a feature in Inkscape itself. While your method works, looks good and is decently practical, it is extremely taxing for rendering (rendering hundreds or thousands of circles is not that performant, who could've guessed) - Inkscape starts lagging on my decent computer after just a few paths with such an effect. This should seriously just be a gradient option
  • Yeah, it's all good, but... God, so many steps for such a simple operation. IMO, instruments for doing things like this should be provided by the software itself. Otherwise it's just not efficient enough. Wasting even a couple of minutes for something that could be done in a single click β€” this is what I call an inefficient workflow. In a perfect world it would be: 1. Draw a curve. 2. Add the gradient stops. 3. "Mode: Along the curve". That's it. And I can't even call this feature a niche one.