#Text

#Add text

Choose the Text tool (T), click on the canvas and type. Press Esc or click elsewhere to finish.

#Edit text

With the Text tool active, every text you can edit shows a dashed blue frame (solid when you hover it). Click inside a frame to edit that text right where it is. With other tools, double-click a text.

#Style

In Properties → Text:

• Font — search the font list. The Linux app also lists the fonts installed on your computer; in a Chromium browser you can allow access to your local fonts. Installed fonts that have no Latin letters of their own — fonts for other writing systems, emoji and symbols — are folded into Other scripts at the end of the installed list, so they don't bury the fonts you can use. Search still finds them, and the group opens by itself when your text is written in another script.
• Size, Line height, Spacing (letter spacing).
• Bold, Italic, decoration, and superscript / subscript.
• Alignment — left, center, right.
• Type — Point text scales when you resize it; Area text keeps its size and rewraps inside the box.

Select several texts to change them together.

#Text to shapes

Text → Create Outlines turns letters into editable paths — for logos, or before sending a file to a printer who doesn't have your fonts. Outlined text can't be retyped, so keep a copy.