Monthly Art Challenge WIPs and Discussion Thread – January 2026

[Michelist]

@steve.improvthis

I know how to put text on a path, circle, etc. in Inkscape, can Krita do something similar?

Soon it can!
And it gets abilities other programs will want to have then too, because they don’t have them.
Call it text on steroids if you want to, and you wouldn’t exaggerate …

Text Tool Thread

Hey everyone, The text layout rewrite branch finally got merged! You should be able to test it in the next nightly build. Keep in mind that the text tool by itself has not changed just yet. Similarly, if you find bugs, please report them to bugs.kde.org under the product Krita, in the component Text. State of Text I’ve spend the last year completely rewriting the text layout code, with a technical blogpost here. This code handles things like taking a text with markup, selecting and loading fon…

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