If you want to change the content of your curved text, you’ll have to go back to the very beginning of the process and do it all over again.

At this point, your text won’t be editable anymore, but you can apply any other edits or transforms just the way you would with any normal pixel layer. Read affiliate disclosure here.Click the Fill button, and GIMP will use the curved text path as a stencil for filling with your chosen foreground color. Want to learn more about how Adobe Illustrator works? Check out my Illustrator Explainer Series - a comprehensive collection of over 100 videos where I go over every tool, feature and function and explain what it is, how it works, and why it's useful. This will finalize the text around the circle so that it doesn’t get lost later on when designing further.

This will flip the orientation of the circle, even though nothing visually changes…Īnd that is how you can wrap text around a circle with Inkscape! Once you are finished, simply click on the text and convert it to a path by going to Path > Object To Path. If you’d like to wrap your text around the inside of the circle rather than the outside, you can reverse the path of the circle by simply clicking on the circle and navigating to Path > Reverse in the menu toolbar. So you can still change the font, size, and contents if you’d like. It should also be noted that you can continue to edit your text with the Text tool, the same way you would any other text object, when it’s placed on a path. Notice how the space that the text occupies changes as the size of the circle changes. If you’d like to alter how much of the circle’s circumference the text occupies, you can scale the circle up or down accordingly.

Make sure you only rotate the circle though! If you try to rotate the text itself it will remove it from its position on the path.

You can change the position of the text on the circle by rotating just the circle.

Inkscape text to path circle inside