Text flow guide

Start

The tool opens with a short paragraph (the Art preset) in one column, wrapping around a circle. The line under the presets counts the lines.

What you need

• A current browser. Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari all work.
• Some text, if you want your own. You can type or paste it into the box; nothing is needed to try the presets.

Your first result

1. Open Text flow. The Art preset is already set around a circle.
2. Press a preset under the text box, such as Long, or type your own text in the box.
3. Drag the circle on the canvas. The lines next to it grow and shrink as it moves.
4. Under Layout, pick a Mode, such as Multi-column, and move Columns.
5. Press Save PNG at the top of the panel, or Copy.

Good to know

• Save PNG saves the canvas as text-flow.png, at the size of the frame on your screen times your screen's pixel density. It is a standard range (SDR) picture; nothing here is HDR.
• Copy puts the same picture on the clipboard, where the browser allows it.
• The PNG holds what the canvas draws: the text, the shapes, the dashed column box when Show bounds is on, and the grid and line guides when they are on. Turn those off first for clean text.
• Every mode moves the text around the shapes: a column, a circle, a wave or a perspective all give way to them.
• Press Enter in the text box to start a new line. An empty line leaves a gap.
• On a phone the controls sit in a bar at the bottom of the screen. Tap the bar to open them.