Does anyone know how to arch font? I need to arch up and down for a two line title. I am using a MacBook Pro....in Pages.
Thanks!
Mamie
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.12
Thank you Viking OS X,
It sounds like a lot of work, but I am willing to do so. I have 31 letters to do but it is for a book title and I am trying to create a book cover.
Many Thanks,
Mamie
Hope you are feeling better soon.
Thank you. Stay safe and Happy Thanksgiving!
I hope your holidays are peaceful and again, I hope I can figure out how to use the program you recommended. It's perfect!
Mamie
An arch involving text suggests text on a path, and Pages cannot do that, as it would be done in an external graphic tool. This is an example of text on a path, where the circle could disappear leaving on the text as shown:
I know in the past, there have been attempts in the Pages community to achieve the above effect by aligning and rotating single-character Text boxes, and then grouping them. That requires time and patience. The following is an "arch" of five Text boxes as an example that I just did over 15 minutes:
Here is an example of text on a path that I did freehand in Affinity Designer v1.8.6. Took about ten minutes. It would take you days in Pages using individual text boxes. This was then exported as PNG with transparent background.
I chose a pencil tool with stroke set to .6 pt to draw the path, and then from the Layout menu, chose Convert to Text Path. Then I entered the text with the artistic text tool using the OpenType-Postscript Cormorant Garamond Medium Italic at 13.5 pt. Unlike Pages, Affinity Designer shows you the entire stylized options for font families in its font menu:
Although Affinity Designer has been in the Mac App Store for years now, Serif offers fully functional free trial when you click the Buy button on their website, I purchased mine from the Mac App Store. There are plenty of tutorials online such as this one. Affinity does not do subscription-ware.
This is amazing and exactly what I needed. I am so sorry it has taken me this long to reply but my husband and I have been ill the last week and still struggling.
Now, if I can be as good as what you have displayed for me. This is somewhat new to me but I can't wait to try it. I so appreciate your kin ness and the others in this group who have written back. I did try the first suggestion but it took me adding one text box at a time so long to complete with the title I am working with. I will try this in the next few days after we are feeling better.
Stay safe and thank you all.
Mamie
Arching font for a title in Pages
