How To Curve Text with Affinity Designer

In this tutorial I’ll be demonstrating how to curve text with Affinity Designer so that you can wrap your text around a circle or place it on any other path. Knowing how to do this can enhance your ability to design logos, emblems, and badges. And thanks to Affinity Designer’s Artistic Text tool, this sort of thing can be accomplished relatively quick.

Wrapping text around a circle with Affinity Designer is very similar (in function) to the process you would use to do the same with Adobe Illustrator. However, it does appear to be more consistent in its behavior, and it’s much easier to work with your text once put on a path than it would be in Inkscape.

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Timestamps:

00:00 Intro
00:16 Create a new document
00:22 Create a path for your text
00:43 Place text on top of the circle
01:35 Choose the placement of your text
01:57 Choose the position of your text
02:41 Choose your font and size
03:09 Place text on the bottom of the circle
04:11 Change the spacing between the letters
05:00 Change the baseline of the text
05:54 Convert the curves
06:06 Outro

Intro song: "In Da Mood" by Combustibles, used with written permission