

Now select Fill table and click on cross button for removing fill of this circle then click on Stroke tab and choose flat color for having stroke of this circle. Select both text and circle by same method as we did above steps. Rotate this text at the bottom of this circle with the help of select tool. Now click on ‘Flip selected objects horizontally’ option of property bar or press H as short cut key.Īnd our text will come inside of this circle. Now go to Path menu of menu bar and click on ‘Object to Path’ option of scroll down list of it. Now you can separate you text from this circle. Now let us see another way of doing this. For this method take Bezier tool from tool panel and draw your desired curved path. Now again take text tool and type a text. This time i will type a sentence and select both text and path by select tool.Īnd go through same option for assigning path to this text which we use for above curved text. You can see our text is not properly fit on this path. You can increase the area of bonding box for having your full text so for this click on arrow of this bonding box and drag it for increasing size of box. Increase size of box at the point where you can see your whole text. It also opens up a lot of design ideas as far as making text blend in with the rest of your scene.You can rotate this text also by rotating this bonding box. This was part of 5 Essential Inkscape Tips and Tricks.Ĭurving text in Inkscape is really easy to accomplish as you can see. However, if you draw the line from right to left, you’ll end up with something like this. Like I said before, if you draw the line left to right, the text will curve above the line. Here’s our result! Not too bad huh? (I changed the color of the line to make the text more visible.) To make the curve happen, select both the text and the path. Also note that I drew this line from left to right, which will make then text curve to the top. I’ll just use the Pen tool and draw a simple curved line. Then we need to draw a path to curve our text to.

To start out, let’s grab the Text tool and draw some text, of course. Let’s go over how to do just that! Step 1 If you’ve ever been down that alley, you might have wondered how to curve text in Inkscape.

One of the most popular graphic design aspects is the ability to alter the way text looks.
