Text on a path: can individual characters also follow the path?

[strila]

Hi!

I am creating a fantasy football logo for a friend and I want to add the team name as text on a path. That works, but all individual letters stay the same and they do not follow that path individually. Is there something that I can do so that all characters are actually following the line of the curve?

 

Thanks for helping!
Daniel

[PixelPest]

There´s definitely something wrong with the text alignment. Can you share that portion of your AD file probably?

[strila]

Hi PixelPest, 

Thanks! I have shared the AD file with that layer. Yours does look better, the characters seem to be centre aligned there.

edit: I have changed the Horizontal Scale of the text back to 100% and now it matches your example. The original question remains though: Is there something that I can do so that all characters are actually following the line of the curve? I mean that characters are somewhat arched?

 

marlow-text.afdesign

Edited August 1, 2021 by strila
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[G13RL]

Hi @strila,

The font applied without changing its proportions is displayed correctly. It looks like you decreased the height and increased the width, which caused the offset you are getting.
In my bottom example, the width is increased to 120% and the height is decreased to 75%, and an offset about the same as yours appears.

[strila]

Hi @G13RL!

Yep that's what I figured out as well. The original question is still there though

[G13RL]

12 minutes ago, strila said:

Hi @G13RL!

Yep that's what I figured out as well. The original question is still there though

I can only think of one solution: convert the text to curves, lower the "Enable Transform Origin" of each letter to the bottom center and circle, then manually rotate the letter to fit its base on the circle.
Someone else may have a better method.

[Alfred]

25 minutes ago, strila said:

The original question is still there though

Not that it should matter, but did you have a special reason for using that particular font?

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About Black Han Sans

Black Han Sans is a Korean and Latin font that makes a bold impression. The Latin is a version of Chivo Black adjusted to fit with the Korean design.

 

[PixelPest]

I guess he wants something like this probably:

 

[iconoclast]

I suppose that you want to have a bent baseline that fits to the curve, right? That would mean that the text (the characters) has to be distorted. I know, there is such an option in Photoshop (Affinity doesn't have that) with predefined distortions for bows and waves and so on. But that is not aligned to a curve. And distorted text is often a little problematic. However, as far as I know GIMP bends text that way - aligned to a curve. But it creates a vector copy of the bend text, so the result is not editable text. The result is a little questionable from the aesthetic point of view, I think.

[John Rostron]

@strila, If you are happy with rasterised text, then I created a macro to do what you want. Here is the link to my posting.

John

[carl123]

Quick & Dirty

1. Convert to curves
2. Rotate each character for best fit (use transform panel)
3. Cheat (just a tiny bit)

Designer File Attached

 

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[strila]

2 hours ago, Alfred said:

Not that it should matter, but did you have a special reason for using that particular font?

 

No special reason, it's in my font library and bold enough for this logo I am creating.

[strila]

2 hours ago, PixelPest said:

I guess he wants something like this probably:

 

Yes exactly!

[strila]

1 hour ago, carl123 said:

Quick & Dirty

1. Convert to curves
2. Rotate each character for best fit (use transform panel)
3. Cheat (just a tiny bit)

Designer File Attached

While not exactly what I am looking for, the effect is better than what I came up with originally. Thanks for thinking along!

[strila]

2 hours ago, John Rostron said:

@strila, If you are happy with rasterised text, then I created a macro to do what you want. Here is the link to my posting.

John

Thanks @John Rostron!