Chapter 6. Geometric Shapes

Inkscape provides a number of tools for drawing geometric shapes. The tools for drawing regular^[1] geometric shapes (rectangles, boxes, ellipses, regular polygons, stars, and spirals) are covered here. Path (pencil and pen) tools, discussed in the next section, may be used to draw arbitrary shapes.

^[1] The Star Tool includes a randomization feature so that the resulting shapes are not regular. The underlying description is still based on a regular shape.

Current Style: The style of an object includes attributes that determine how the inside of the shape (fill) and how the boundary path (stroke) are drawn. It also includes shape-specific attributes such as the number of points in a star. New objects are drawn with the Current style. Some components of the Current style are displayed (e.g. Fill color) or changed (e.g. number of points in a star) in the Tool Controls of a relevant tool.