Is there a way to gradually reduce font size from one end of a sentance to the end?

[CRWillow]

I found a tutorial on this for Photoshop and I had it working in my old Photoshop years ago, but found a spelling mistake and  can't work it in Affinity to fix it and no longer have the PSD software to repair it. I'd put a quote on a spiral path and my text gradually shrank as the line spiraled down to the center. - Affinity really should have made the spiral available by now. It such a pain to make a new spiral each time I need it.

I doubt anyone can do this but if there is a magical genie who has a secret they could share I would really be thankful.

[firstdefence]

For the spiral, look for a downloadable vector spiral using the golden mean, for the text, use an old or rough typewriter font, type out the sentence and rasterise it, then turn it into a brush. You may be able to taper the brush using pressure settings. 

Forgot to mention, this was done in Affinity Designer not Affinity Photo. 

[Alfred]

1 hour ago, firstdefence said:

for the text, use an old or rough typewriter font

The font in the OP’s example is Vic Fieger’s CarbonType:

https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/CarbonType

[firstdefence]

Example and notes.

Notes: In order to render this as it looks in the screenshot, I had to adjust some of the nodes positions, if I zoomed in or out the render became corrupted, I suspect this is because of the font used and also on Affinity not rendering correctly.

The tapering using the strokes pressure panel is controlled by the brushes size variance option, I set that to 100%

After setting the size variance option in the brushes settings, you can use the pressure panel in the stroke panel to edit the taper of the text.

and you end up with this...

Spiral text tapered.afdesign

Sentence Brushes.afbrushes

[firstdefence]

Boredom and a twisted mind lol!

[Alfred]

For those wondering, the original quote (from Edgar Allan Poe, describing his reaction to his wife’s periods of alternating illness and recovery before her death from TB) is:

Quote

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

 

[CRWillow]

Thanks Firstdefense I installed the brushes but my pen tablet seems to have stopped working with pressure. It remains the same size throughout. I was hoping Affinity would have added scripts and spirals to V2. found it  here. Thanks for the effort - not your fault my tablet won't cooperate.

 

[3rdDay]

If it isn't too long, you can manually adjust each letter in this simple way. Set the first character to a large number (ideally a whole number) and the last character to a smaller number depending on how much you want it to decrease by. For this example, imagining we set the first number to 100pt and the last number to 10pt. Now, subtract the smaller number from the larger, in this case leaving us with 90. Then, count all the characters and minus one (let's imagine we had 11 characters, minus one leaves us with 10). Now, subtract divide the first number (the larger font size minus the smaller font size) by the second number (the number of characters minus one). In this example, 90 ÷ 10 = 9. This is the number of points to change the font size by per character. In our case, we could enter the smallest font size (10) in the calculator, add 9 and press '='. This results in 19. We'd give the second to last character a 19pt font size. Then, press '=' on the calculator again to add another 9. This results in our next font size for the third from last character, and so on... until we reach the 100pt font size for the first character.

This worked for me and is a simple way to increase each character incrementally by the same point size from character to character.

Hope this helps someone.

[loukash]

1 hour ago, 3rdDay said:

you can manually adjust each letter

You could use a macro utility – like Keyboard Maestro on Mac – to perform and even loop a sequence of keyboard shortcuts.
Let's say when the cursor is at the beginning of the string, then:

1. right arrow (skipping first character)
2. select to end of line (Mac standard is cmd-shift-rightarrow)
3. Text → Size → Smaller (assing a shortcut or let KM select it by menu entry)
4. left arrow (to cancel the selection)
5. right arrow (moving on)
6. select to end of line
7. Text → Size → Smaller
8. left arrow
9. etc.

[loukash]

25 minutes ago, loukash said:

a macro utility – like Keyboard Maestro on Mac – to perform and even loop a sequence of keyboard shortcuts

Like this:

At the end there are a few harmless blank steps because the loop is a bit longer than the string.

This is the KM macro:

Having a short pause between the steps is usually a good idea.

[carl123]

In Affinity Designer:

The Spiral Tool using Text on the Spiral's Path

Then enclosed in a Perspective Warp Group

May be worth experimenting with

(Note: Text remains editable)

 

 

[CRWillow]

Sorry didn't see the update in my email. I am still experimenting with the suggestions, thank you all by the way,. I was hoping to find/make a PC macro, so I could try out different quotes. Your perspective warp came out much better than mine and I'll keep experimenting/playing however I don't get consistent results and it takes me more time than I'd like. The constancy and speed of a macro is what I'm hoping for but I haven't made many and don't seem to have gotten it right yet.