"Design Freely" makes more sense, tbh. Inkscape is more of a design program than a drawing program. Inkscape's drawing capabilities are lacking compared to most other open source graphics projects I can think of, like: GIMP Krita MyPaint etc.
Of course, I always thought "Illustrator" was a bad name for the proprietary vector program by Adobe. One was more likely to design in it than do much drawing/illustration for the lack of "drawing" tools.
There has been some debate about what "drawing" is in the context of image creation, but to me and many other graphics people I know "drawing" in the context of design refers mainly to freehand-drawing with tools that simulate real-world drawing utensils.
That's not to say you can't "draw" in it, I do often, but for the slogan, I think "design" covers many more of the tools that make Inkscape a powerful program.
Ask the average user what drawing program they use, they will say "Photoshop", "Painter X", or "Sketchbook". Some will point out that you can draw using brush simulation shapes in Illustrator, which is correct. I'd like to see more of these come to Inkscape, but to me "Draw Freely" is underselling Inkscape's capabilities, and highlighting an area that it's not particularly good at (yet).
My 2p -C
On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 5:02 AM, Mihaela <mihaela.jurkovic@...400...> wrote:
On 20.11.2016 03:39, Sylvain Chiron wrote:
Le 20/11/2016 à 03:18, Mihaela a écrit :
"Design freely."?
Arrghh……… It’s ‘Draw Freely.’ (yes, with two capital letters). Design is a cool job too, sure.
I can't believe I wrote it wrong lol. I was mucking about the store and multitasking, and there's a lot of "Design" in the interface there, and it was 3am for me so please forgive my sin %)
Mihaela
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