Text flow guide

Three looks

Each picture below was set by the tool from its own presets. The table under each one is the whole recipe; everything not listed stays as the page opens, including the starting circle. Text is the preset pill, and Color is the one under Background.

Your frame may be a different size from the one used here, so your lines can break in other places.

Three columns in a monospace font

The text fills the first column to the bottom, then the second, and the last words run on into the third. The starting circle sits in the middle column, so the lines beside it stop short of its curve, and the third column's second line steps in to keep clear of it.

Press Add circle to drop another shape in the middle and watch a column wrap around it too.

A circle of serif text on cream

Each line may use the width of the circle at its own height, so the lines are short at the top and bottom and long across the middle. The text starts at the top of the circle and stops where the words run out.

This recipe clears the shapes first for a clean circle. A shape left in the circle pushes the text aside. Try Align on Justify for a smooth round edge.

A fading perspective in gold

The first line may use three tenths of the column and the lines widen toward the bottom, like a page tipped away from you. Fade edges lets the first and last lines sink into the dark blue.

Try Wave in the same recipe: the line lengths swell and shrink and never stop moving.