Your text - as well as the start and end brackets - will rotate in correspondence to the moving center bracket. If your type isn’t where you want it on the circle, drag the center bracket around the circle. The center bracket defines the midpoint of type on a path. You may have to zoom in to find the center bracket, though it has the annoying habit of not enlarging as you zoom in. More difficult to see is the center bracket, located in the middle of the text, precisely opposite the start and end brackets. On your circle you’ll find both the start and end brackets at the top of the circle, at the point where you initially clicked with the Type on a Path tool. You’ll also see, attached to the in- and out-ports, vertical lines, the start and end brackets, that describe the beginning and end of type on a path objects. Selecting a type on a path object with the black arrow Selection tool reveals standard text object structures like in- and out-ports.

If, however, you aren’t happy with the alignment of your text on the circle despite pressing every button on the Paragraph panel, you’ll need to manually reposition the text. You can also change the alignment with the Align Left, Align Center, and other alignment buttons on the Paragraph panel or the Paragraph mode of the Control bar. Type something and watch it flow around the circle.Īs with any other type in InDesign, you can change its font family and style, increase or decrease its point size, and spell check it. Once you click, you’ll see a blinking I-beam cursor. A small plus sign appears next to the cursor when you’re in the correct position to click.

Select the Type on a Path Tool and click as close to the top-center of the circle as possible. On the page or pasteboard, click and drag while holding Shift to create a perfect circle.Īlso hiding on the Tools panel is the Type on a Path tool, which you access through the normal Type tool. Right-click on the Rectangle tool on the Tools panel and mouse down to the Ellipse tool.

First, you need a path, and the most commonly used one is a circle. But sometimes you want or need to break ranks and make that type follow a circle, a polygon, an S-curve, or even a spiral. For most of the documents we create in InDesign, type marches straight across the page.

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