There are definitely ways to write in circles with Krita, even if it is a bit “hackish”.
I dug up this old topic again, especially the following posts are interesting, but actually it was fun to read through the whole topic again:
Was curious to see if it was possible even if committing several war crimes in the process and YUP! Admittedly it consumes quite a bit of processing power to do it and it’s not perfect (although it could be made better with patience), but here it is
It’s using a transformation mask with mesh transform to bend everything into a circle
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Here with a UV Map test texture thingie to show the effect (texture by ByValle under CC ShareAlike 4.0)
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Enable Pipe mode.
Adjust the spacing to see the text clearly.
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ELLipse Tool Options
Fill: Not Filled&OutLine: Brush
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Click the left mouse button on the canvas.
I’m adding onto @Eranthis_stellata 's technique. Here is one (slightly flawed) way to create arcane circles.
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make a circle assistant.
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add inner circle.
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add arcane runes with a text brush.
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add outer circle.
For the brush:
download runic fonts (here are some Runic Fonts | FontSpace )
take a basic-2 opacity brush
remove all brush properties
enable Rotation → drawing angle
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change brush tip to text, you can adjust the size and spacing to your prefer…
Michelist
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