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The Type tool has a single-row options bar for font family, style, size, alignment and colour, followed by the Character panel button and text edit cancel/commit buttons. Click a numeric value to type it; Up/Down adjusts it and Shift takes larger steps. Enter finishes the field and Escape releases it without cancelling the text edit.

The Character tab opens in the right sidebar when you select Type. It contains leading, tracking, and Kerning (AV), Ligatures (fi), Discretionary ligatures (st), and Small caps (Tt). Hover the buttons for their names. These are OpenType features from the selected font; a font without a requested feature keeps its ordinary glyphs. They apply to the whole text layer, including its style runs. Font, style and size can still be changed for selected characters.

Existing text keeps its previous layout until an OpenType control is used. New overrides use rustybuzz for glyph substitution and positioning. The serialized TextSpec.features also accepts four-byte OpenType tags and numeric values, including numbered stylistic sets and alternate glyphs. Paragraph layout remains horizontal and left-to-right; bidi paragraph layout and vertical writing are separate remaining work.

To set text on a curve:

  1. Draw a path with Freeform Pen or Curvature Pen, or select a live shape with Path Selection. The ordinary Pen can create a live shape in its Shape mode.
  2. Switch to Type and choose On path under Text on a path in the Character panel, before creating text or while editing an existing layer.
  3. Use Path offset to move the text along the baseline. Alignment places it at the start, centre or end of the path.

Text uses a copy of the active path's first subpath with at least two anchors. As with Path Selection, an active live shape takes precedence over a separately stored path. Later edits to the source path do not change that copy; toggle Straight and then On path to take a fresh copy. The baseline stays with the text layer. Glyphs rotate along the curve, and the insertion caret and mouse selection follow it. Extra lines keep their normal line spacing; word wrapping is disabled on paths. Text beyond either end continues along the endpoint's tangent. A degenerate path uses ordinary text layout.

Choose Straight to return to the layer's ordinary layout box. Text, paths and feature settings participate in the existing text-edit undo operation and survive PSD and PSB save/reopen in Schist's PsTx layer block. Other editors see the rendered pixels, as with other Schist text layers.

make check-text runs the layout, editing, persistence and Affinity import regression tests.