# How to put text in motion?

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**Category:** Coding Questions\
**Created:** [September 9, 2020, 8:53pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-to-put-text-in-motion/23762 "2020-09-09T20:53:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![carole\_line](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e8c25b/32.png) [@carole\_line](https://discourse.processing.org/u/carole_line)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2020, 8:53pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-to-put-text-in-motion/23762/1 "2020-09-09T20:53:24Z")

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Good evening, so there you go. I’m doing my college semester on Processing programming, but I don’t know how to get the text moving. A series of numbers appears, but my texts remain motionless.

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**Author:** ![jeremydouglass](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/jeremydouglass/32/20_2.png) [@jeremydouglass](https://discourse.processing.org/u/jeremydouglass)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2020, 8:56pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-to-put-text-in-motion/23762/2 "2020-09-09T20:56:11Z")

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Text moves by changing the draw location or orientation for the text. It depends on what kind of motion you want.

There is a simple example of rotating text here:

[https://processing.org/examples/textrotation.html](https://processing.org/examples/textrotation.html)

There is an in-depth tutorial on animation text, with examples for scrolling headlines, here:

[https://processing.org/tutorials/text/](https://processing.org/tutorials/text/)

To change the appearance of your text, you may also be interested in the tutorial on typography:

[https://processing.org/tutorials/typography/](https://processing.org/tutorials/typography/)