The left side bar: here you can find the tools used to draw and manipulate vector graphics.
The interface underwent several changes in the past few years, and in the latest version of Inkscape (1.2), you have the light mode and the dark mode, and a bunch of icons you can choose from. It has been around for nearly 2 decades, and it is actively updated, with the help of a community of developers and testers. Inkscape is a free and open-source vector graphics editor and creator. This movement gained a lot of momentum as time passes, and now you can find almost everything you want open-source. Open-sourceĪlso, when computers became popular, most of the software back then was proprietary, but when some programming languages were open-sourced, programmers, software engineers and just hobbyists started composing software and releasing it to the public, absolutely for free. Vector graphicsĬontrary to raster graphics, vectors are not built of small units (pixels) the shapes in every vector are described using mathematical equation, which are continuous, and that continuity of these equations ensures the non-pixelating property of vector graphics. These are the concepts of vectors, and the open-source movement. In this section, we will discuss basic concepts upon which Inkscape stands.