How to Create Rounded Corners on Shapes/Paths/Texts in Inkscape

Prerequisites

Open Path Effects in Path or with shortcut Ctrl-&:

Rounding Corners

• Shapes/Paths

  Simply select your shape or path:

  

• Texts

  Select your texts then use Object to Path in Path or with shortcut Shift-Ctrl-C:

  

  Double click on the texts to ungroup the paths, then select the one for creating rounded corners:

  

Go to Path Effects then Add path effect:

Choose Corners (Fillet/Chamfer):

Then adjust Radius to your liking:

Change Certain Nodes

If you only want to round certain corners, enable Change only selected nodes then double click on your path to select the nodes:

See Also

• How to Install Inkscape (Illustrator Alternative) on Arch Linux/Manjaro