Centering Text in a Donut Shape

[MBernard]

I have been trying to figure out how to center text in the middle of the path of a donut. I found an example in the link below. I have been trying to adjust the width of the circle that the curved text is on but I figured there has to be an easier way to do this and get it more accurately centered. Thanks.

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[GarryP]

One way to do what I think you want is to use the Baseline setting in the Character Panel – see attached image.
You cannot get it to be automatically centred and you will need some experimentation with the value. (This can sometimes be better than letting the software calculate it ‘cold’ without looking at how it actually looks.)
There may be better/easier ways so keep checking back in case anyone posts something different.

[MBernard]

Thank you. I think will work.

[GarryP]

You’re welcome.
If it doesn’t work as you want it to then please get back to us with more information.

[Washishu]

Baseline shift would work. Or you could create the donut object, then create a circle object where you want the text baseline to be; centre-align the two objects; create the text on the circle object.

 

[MBernard]

I'm sorry but I'm having trouble wrapping my head around your statement "then create a circle object where you want the text baseline to be." Thank you, it sounds very interesting possibility.

[firstdefence]

6 hours ago, MBernard said:

I'm sorry but I'm having trouble wrapping my head around your statement "then create a circle object where you want the text baseline to be." Thank you, it sounds very interesting possibility.

You can attach the text to the donut shape and using the baseline. adjustment move it away from the inner line of the donut, but, you could also create a circle using the Ellipse tool and attach the text to the circle and adjust the position and size of the circle.

In the example below, the text is attached to a separate circle.

 

[Washishu]

MBernard—perhaps I was assuming familiarity with typographic terminolgy. The baseline is the line upon which text sits. So, make your donut; that's object number 1. Then make a second, completely separate object, a cricle. Object number 2. The size of the circle object will be determined by where you want the baseline of your text to be, within the donut. You could do some calculation for this to work out sizes or you could, as I did in my example, just busk it.

Move object 2 over object 1. Select them both and use Align to ensure they are centred on each other both horizontally and vertically. Next use Art text tool to convert the circle (object 2) to a text path and type your text.

This is what First Defence has done in his more finished example.

[MBernard]

firstdefence and Washishu, thank you for the follow-up explanations. Washishu, I think your explanation was sufficient but I'm still learning all the "proper" ins and outs of the system. I'm very much a user who jumps in and tries to make things work  Thanks again to both of you!