How to type on a circle in illustrator

Learn how to type on a circle in illustrator, displaying you an easy and short method to make illustrator circle text by typing on a circle or typing around a circle!

The skills that pay the bills, you’ve seen it before, a cool looking logo which has the strap line wrapped around in a circular fashion, It looks pretty neat!

If you don't know how to do it but wish to learn, you are in the right place.

I'll show you step by step on exactly how to type around a circle. The tutorial is easy to follow and you will be able to perfectly wrap your text around a spherical circle shape in a matter of minutes!

Firstly you are going to obviously need a new document opened up.

Select the stroke pallet but disable the fill pallet, the color does not matter as the circle itself will become invisible in a little while.

Create your circle to a desirable size for your document and work, be sure that you set it up so you can imagine one bit of text running along the top half of it, and then a different line of text along the lower half, if that makes sense? It will become clear soon don’t worry.

Once that is done select the circle and then select the scissors tool located here.

With the scissors selected you then simply tap once on the left anchor

and then again on the right anchor.

You will find that the circle has been split into 2 halves.

From here you will want to select the text tool but hold down the select button and opt for the type on a path tool.

For the upper text you click and type away with whatever it is that you intend to say.

Once complete you can select the direct select tool and click here to drag the text from left to right.

Go in and change your size as well as typeface to what you wish to use. I like to drag a guide down so that I can align the text perfectly.

For the lower half you do the same thing, select the type on a path tool and type in your text. Now as you can see the text is upside down, if you want it that way that’s great, but what if you don’t want it that way?

Well, by selecting the direct select tool again this time drag the curser here until you see the small black arrow symbol appear, then drag the text over the line and it will flip.

Once everything is as you would like it you are good to go. If you diselect everything you will see that your circle is invisible.

If this has been helpful, which I hope it has,  be sure to chime down in the comment section below if you have any ideas for further tutorial.

Peace!