Spiral Text is a legacy text layer type, currently in Beta, that places text along an inward or outward spiral path instead of a straight line or a fixed curve.

Adding a Spiral Text layer

Open the Text tool in the template editor's left sidebar and choose Spiral Text from the list of layer types.

Default layer

A new Spiral Text layer starts with placeholder copy already wound into several rings, so the spiral path is visible right away instead of starting as a flat line.

Font

The Font control on the canvas toolbar opens the same font library picker used by other legacy text layers: search or browse by folder, preview the typeface, and confirm to apply it to the whole layer.

Color

The Color control sets a flat fill color for the text, entered as a hex value or picked from the color swatch. Depending on the zoom level, a subtle fill color change can be hard to spot directly on the canvas, so it is worth zooming in to confirm the value took effect.

Character Spacing

Character Spacing adds extra space between letters. On a spiral this is especially useful for keeping inner rings legible once the path tightens and letters would otherwise start to overlap. The screenshot above shows a spacing value of 20.

Uppercase

The "Aa" toggle on the toolbar forces the spiral text to render in uppercase, regardless of how the underlying text was typed.

Stroke

Stroke adds an outline around each letter, with its own width and color, independent of the text's fill color.

Shadow

Shadow adds a drop shadow behind the text, with its own color, blur amount, and horizontal and vertical offset.

Spiral shape

This is the control set that defines the spiral path itself:

• Inner radius: how far from the center the spiral starts.
• Ring spacing: the distance between one ring of the spiral and the next. A larger value spreads the rings further apart.
• Start angle (deg): the angle at which the text begins along the path.
• Direction: whether the text winds from the outer edge inward, or from the center outward.

With an inner radius of 50 and a ring spacing of 35, the text wraps into a loose, evenly spaced circle:

Switching Direction to "Inner to outer" produces a dramatically different result, a tight multi-ring spiral instead of a single loose circle:

Transform

The Transform panel controls the layer's position, size, and rotation on the canvas. It works the same way here as it does on every other layer type.

Personalize text

Enabling this option lets the merchant's customer type their own text into the spiral, instead of using the fixed placeholder copy. Checking it reveals a full set of fields:

• Label: the field name shown to the customer in the personalization form.
• Required: whether the customer must fill in this field before ordering.

• Help text: optional guidance text shown under the field.
• Placeholder: example text shown inside the empty field.
• Max length: the maximum number of characters the customer can enter.

• Move with bounding box: keeps the text anchored to the layer's bounding box if it is resized.
• Type range: restricts input to a specific range of characters.
• Is numeric: restricts input to numbers only.
• Fill in keypads: shows a numeric keypad on mobile devices when this field is active.
• Text length: enforces a minimum and/or maximum character count.
• Character set: restricts which characters are allowed (for example, letters only).
• Trim whitespace: removes leading and trailing spaces from the customer's input.
• Text transform: automatically transforms the input case (for example, to uppercase).
• Custom regex: validates the input against a custom regular expression.

Personalize font

Enabling this option lets the customer choose their own font for the spiral text from a font library, the same folder-based picker documented in the Font section above and in the Rainbow Text Personalization article.

Personalize with color palette

Enabling this option lets the customer pick the text's fill color from a predefined palette, rather than free-picking any color. The palette is built from a folder in the Colors asset library:

Selecting a folder reveals the full set of fields:

• Label: the field name shown to the customer.
• Required: whether the customer must pick a color before ordering.
• Values: the list of colors from the selected folder, shown to the customer as swatches.
• Folder: the Colors library folder the swatches are pulled from. Click it to replace it with a different folder.
• Display type: how the swatches are rendered to the customer (for example, as circles or squares).
• Add value: adds an extra color on top of the folder's contents.

Personalize with color picker

Unlike the palette option above, this lets the customer pick any color freely, rather than choosing from a predefined set:

• Label: the field name shown to the customer.
• Help text: optional guidance text shown under the field.
• Default color: the color pre-selected before the customer changes it.
• Required: whether the customer must confirm a color before ordering.

Personalize with stroke palette

This works exactly like Personalize with color palette above, except it applies to the Stroke color instead of the text's fill:

• Label: the field name shown to the customer.
• Required: whether the customer must pick a stroke color before ordering.
• Values: the list of colors from the selected folder, shown to the customer as swatches.
• Folder: the Colors library folder the swatches are pulled from.
• Display type: how the swatches are rendered to the customer.
• Add value: adds an extra color on top of the folder's contents.

Updated on: 21/07/2026