# Have a text follow a Bezier curve

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**Category:** Coding Questions\
**Created:** [March 18, 2019, 12:45am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/have-a-text-follow-a-bezier-curve/9399 "2019-03-18T00:45:07Z")\
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You may be interested in the tutorial “Placing text along a path using Geomerative and Processing”:

> **[Placing text along a path using Geomerative and Processing](http://louisc.co.uk/?p=2686)**
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> Introduction
> In the last post here we explored placing points along an a wave path we had created all using the built in functionality of the Geomerative library. This was ultimately to allow text to be placed along the path, which is what...

Previous related discussion:

> [@Text reveal along a path](https://discourse.processing.org/t/text-reveal-along-a-path/1705/16):
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> Hi Dan, Wish I could be more help, but mobile development isn’t my specialty. (I don’t have a touch screen device either.) The first question I would ask were I in your place would be: do the mouse [pressed](https://processing.org/reference/mousePressed_.html), [released](https://processing.org/reference/mouseReleased_.html) and [dragged](https://processing.org/reference/mouseDragged_.html) functions accurately represent touch events on the mobile device? I’m not sure because different flavors of Processing, like [Android](https://android.processing.org/reference/multitouch/touches.html) and [p5.js](https://p5js.org/reference/#/p5/touches) also include a touches array and touch event listeners. Searching the forum may also provide more information. Two threads whi…

Some generic approaches to circle-curve text:

- [Better text on path - Processing 2.x and 3.x Forum](https://forum.processing.org/two/discussion/9425/better-text-on-path)
- [textalongcurve | Learning Processing 2nd Edition](http://learningprocessing.com/examples/chp17/example-17-08-textalongcurve)

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