Dynamic Text should preserve Area Type in custom shape (don’t force rectangle)

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February 18, 2026
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When you have Area Type inside a custom vector shape, toggling/converting to Dynamic Text turns it into a rectangular bounding box, losing the shape container. This is surprising/destructive and reads like a bug in workflow, even if it’s “by design.”

Request: Let Dynamic Text work with shape-based area type containers (any closed path/shape layer) so resizing the shape reflows the text within the shape.

Steps:

Draw a custom shape (closed).

Add Area Type inside it.

Toggle/Convert Dynamic Text → becomes rectangle.

Why it matters: templates/badges/social layouts need responsive text and non-rect containers.

Pete.Green

Hi @JamesCreative

Thanks for the request! Curious what your expectation would be for text to fit non-rectangular shapes?

A rectangle shape can more naturally be snugly filled, but you can easily get into shapes that will have dead space.

What would your desired default behavior be there for a Circle or a Star or Triangle for instance? Which shapes make sense for your purposes?

JamesCreativeAuthor

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Thank you @Pete.Green

The star is a good point because its concave features complicate the implementation. Focusing on convex shapes would be a more helpful distinction to make. I am not looking for the letterforms to skew or warp to fit a diagonal edge (though maybe in a far future version!). Instead the text should just resize and reflow until it bumps against the boundaries of the custom container. I do not think some dead space would be a problem. Most users would prefer for the Area Type and Dynamic Text tools to stack predictably rather than one undoing the other.

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