How to Swerve Text in InDesign
InDesign provides tools and processes that enable you to create customized text effects like swerved text. Swerved text curves, resembling a wave or circular motion, and is often used to surround or flow with similarly shaped objects. Use an object as a shape guide and InDesign’s “Type on a Path” option to create your own customized swerved text.
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Click the shape tool in InDesign and drag in the document to create a shape such as a rectangle or ellipse. You can use the pen tool instead to draw a line in the shape that you want the text to follow.
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Click the “Type” tool and hold to display; then select the “Type on A Path Tool” option.
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Click on the path you created at the point where you want to start the text. Type the text that you want to swerve.
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- If desired, constrain the text to a specific area on the path by clicking the starting point for the text using the “Type on a Path Tool,” dragging to the ending point on the path and releasing the mouse. Then type the text.
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