

Align the lighter colour with the white end of the Stroke gradient and the darker colour with the bottom of the circle.

Incidentally the source SVG document for this tutorial is available for download under a Creative Commons BY-SA licence. If you do then open Inkscape with a new document. If you don't, then perhaps it would be better to start with my first Inkscape tutorial. I'm going to presume you know your way around the Inkscape interface. This effect is surprisingly simple to achieve with something like Inkscape. One of the more popular requests has been to create icons with a glass effect. As part of my work I have often had to create icons for various situations. I've covered creating a simple ribbon in an earlier tutorial, so let's step things up a little. Inkscape is a shining star in the free software graphics world.
