# Monthly Art Challenge WIPs and Discussion Thread – January 2026 **URL:** \ **Category:** Monthly Art Contest\ **Tags:** art-challenge\ **Created:** [December 31, 2025, 9:11pm UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/monthly-art-challenge-wips-and-discussion-thread-january-2026/156484 "2025-12-31T21:11:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 24
**Author:** ![Michelist](https://krita-artists.org/user_avatar/krita-artists.org/michelist/32/65826_2.png) [@Michelist](https://krita-artists.org/u/Michelist)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2026, 5:57pm UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/monthly-art-challenge-wips-and-discussion-thread-january-2026/156484/24 "2026-01-03T17:57:06Z")
> [@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](https://krita-artists.org/t/text-tool-thread/57973): > > Hey everyone, This is a thread dedicated to the development of the text tool. The majority of the work discussed in this thread has led to the text tool in 5.3, where you can edit text on canvas and have access to advanced typography features. If you find bugs, please report them to [bugs.kde.org](https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?format=guided&product=krita&component=tool/text) under the product Krita, in the component Text. Updates I wrote several introductions to text as updates to this thread. Here’s a list of them: [Fonts](https://krita-artists.org/t/text-tool-thread/57973/132)[Open Type Features](https://krita-artists.org/t/text-tool-thread/57973/190)[Font Metrics](https://krita-artists.org/t/text-tool-thread/57973/203)[Style…](https://krita-artists.org/t/text-tool-thread/57973/219) Michelist --- _[View the full topic](https://krita-artists.org/t/monthly-art-challenge-wips-and-discussion-thread-january-2026/156484)._