# How can I do that Star Wars triangle text thing? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 18, 2005, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-do-that-star-wars-triangle-text-thing/295100 "2005-03-18T03:21:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-do-that-star-wars-triangle-text-thing/295100/1 "2005-03-18T03:21:23Z")
AT the start of the Star Wars films there’s a long title crawl where the text gets in a pyramid shape. How can I make some text look like that? It doesn’t have to move, I just want the pyramid shape and it needs to have multiple lines. I have Word 2003 and Corel WordPerfect 11 available, but I don’t see anything there to do it in. Is there a free program I can use for this? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-do-that-star-wars-triangle-text-thing/295100/2 "2005-03-18T03:25:32Z")
[Here’s one way](http://www.blenderwars.com/tut.php?module=crawl) ---
**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-do-that-star-wars-triangle-text-thing/295100/3 "2005-03-18T03:32:42Z")
MS Publisher has a thing built in, called MS WordArt, which does that shape, as well as several others. In Photoshop, or something similar, look for an option called “perspective” or something like that. Free? I don’t know. But if you don’t have publisher, it’s likely that a friend of yours does. Ask around. ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-do-that-star-wars-triangle-text-thing/295100/4 "2005-03-18T03:32:45Z")
I don’t really need in 3D, though I’ll give that a try if no one else has a simpler solution. Bloody fast response there, though. 🙂 Bravo! ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-do-that-star-wars-triangle-text-thing/295100/5 "2005-03-18T03:42:59Z")
You can also use Word’s WordArt function (format it into the Fade Up shape and then justify the text). But it’s hard to get it to look decent. WordArt sucks, especially when you’re trying to resize something. ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-do-that-star-wars-triangle-text-thing/295100/6 "2005-03-18T03:44:41Z")
Oops sorry, didn’t mean to repeat what they said. They posted while I was off playing with Word. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-do-that-star-wars-triangle-text-thing/295100/7 "2005-03-18T05:12:46Z")
> [@Reply](#): > > They posted while I was off playing with Word. Oh, is that what the kids are calling it now? ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-do-that-star-wars-triangle-text-thing/295100/8 "2005-03-18T05:27:28Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > Oh, is that what the kids are calling it now? Bah. I knew it! I kept telling myself it wouldn’t come out sounding that way, but oh, was I wrong…