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This is the obligatory post suggesting Affinity Designer.

It also appears they're running a 50% off sale:

https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/

(No affiliation. I just notice it comes up in a lot of conversations here about Inkscape)

Why should one use this over Inkscape?

Probably the biggest difference is that Designer is a combo of a raster and a vector editor, while Inkscape is a pure vector editor. Also Affinity suite supports more color spaces, like CMYK for print stuff. Affinity apps are also very well optimized for Mac and M1, while Inkscape I hear is not.

But there’s probably many reasons against choosing Designer over Inkscape too.

Here is a decent video comparing both: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2XfFvW4yII

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