A while back I got curious about how certain text effects could be acheived, and one of the things I explored was warping text along a curve to achieve a kind of sweeping effect. I created a prototype for this, to explore different solutions. This article contains some general notes on the subject, as I reflect back on this work. The information given here could be used as a kind of cookbook to replicate the work. The original work was done using C# and GDI+, although the concepts are applicable to other frameworks.