However, calligraphic tool is not good for thickness at all, because it has a constant angle, which resembles the calligraphic pen, but changes in thickness because of pen pressure can be in any direction.Īs an alternative, I am thinking, what if we can a real texture of pen drawing on paper, then playing with it in Inkscape The chalk and sponge filter gives good effects, but its needs careful tweak to achieve something natural. (or simpler filters/distort/roughen click live preview and tweak te settings) Turbulence effect : to change the base frequency to change the 'frequency' of bumps/spikesĭisplacement map : to change the scale to change the distance of bumps/spikes from the center of your line

In the filter dialog click chalk and sponge go to the If you don't like the holes then start with the chalk and sponge filter (Filters/distort/chalk and sponge)Īnd go into the filter editor (Filters/filter editor) to tweak the settings I don't agree when you say the middle of line is always solid (it's true in your new image much less in the old one) V1nce wrote:For thickness control use instead of

Convert bitmap to vector inkscape