Holy shit. After a decade. Krita's new text tool approaches :stacky_moment:

It’s interesting to reflect back on this, we had assumed at the time that the artists using our program would be quite technically competent.
wolthera.info/2025/11/text-too

Also, this right here is such a terrible, blame shifting phrase to use for the absolute worst UX I have ever seen. This is why it's so important to have non-dev, non-technical people in your development loop. Cause any level of user testing would have killed this idea.

Krita's text tool is easily the worst piece of design in all of FOSS and should be studied as a critical blunder.

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hi,

I intended that sentence to mean that we were incompetent at understanding the needs of artists.

February 5, 2026 at 4:19:55 PM
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unfortunately, It missed that tone by a lot.

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