Draw the curves with the bezier tool, the circle with the circle tool, put the text in as you want it and use a pattern fill with an appropriate colored paper texture bitmap for everything. (google search for paper texture returns quite a few)

--- Hans Deragon <hans@...988...> wrote:

Greetings.

I am a neophyte with inkscape. But I wonder if there is an easy way to generate a logo simillar to the mailman logo:

http://www.gnu.org/graphics/dragonlogo.jpg

Anybody have some tips on how to create the nice waves and the texture?

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On 8/19/05, Nicu Buculei <nicu@...143...> wrote:

I would use a thick stroke, convert it to shape and simplify, to get something not that uniform.

Also very useful is the "Radius randomize" extension. I recently used it to get a very realistic "stamp on paper". Use it with "Add nodes" extension twice, for example:

- Add nodes 10px, radius randomize 2px - Add nodes 1px, radius randomize 0.3px

Simplify according to taste, and add some small blotches and dots with calligraphic. Looks very nice and is completely vector.

On 8/20/05, Hans Deragon <hans@...988...> wrote:

Mmm... I fail to understand you. I enabled the Effect menu, but do not find a "Add nodes" extension there.

Sorry, it's probably too recent and not in 0.42. Aaron?

Also, I fail to see what you suggest could create the "texture". Or are you talking of another effect?

I was talking about adding texture to the edges of the shapes, not to the background. For that, you can use an imported bitmap.

On 8/20/05, Hans Deragon <hans@...988...> wrote:

I have set the Doc props to "snap points to grid" but to no avail. The points in the circle do not snap. So it is very difficult for me to get a nice perfect half circle.

Is this object still an ellipse or converted to path?