First create some text to increase in size along the path without any character rotation.
Set the initial ‘Font size’ value – mine are shown in brackets (60).
Choose the custom font to use – navigate to the location on your machine.
Set the ‘Text step size’ (8.0)
Hit ‘OK’.
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Now to add some rotation to the characters to keep the characters horizontally positioned on the path.
Reshow the FontSlab dialog and, keeping the earlier settings, do the following:
Set the ‘Rotate letters’ to ‘Yes’
Keep the ‘Angle of rotation’ as 0 degrees.
Hit ‘OK’.
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If you find that the letters overlap too much, you can always adjust the spacing with the relevant spacing option.
Adjust the angle size to add an element of edginess to the text:
Increased the ‘Angle of rotation’ value (22).
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