# Diagonal text alignment

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/diagonal-text-alignment/203184>\
**Category:** design\
**Created:** [October 8, 2006, 10:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/diagonal-text-alignment/203184 "2006-10-08T22:03:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Brucelines](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/da6949/32.png) [@Brucelines](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Brucelines)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2006, 10:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/diagonal-text-alignment/203184/1 "2006-10-08T22:03:37Z")

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If you were to align text diagonally, which is better:  
rotated 45 clockwise  
[![](http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/8916/clockwisevd2.th.png)](http://img183.imageshack.us/my.php?image=clockwisevd2.png)

rotated 45 counter-clockwise  
[![](http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/8422/counterclockwiseiy2.th.png)](http://img504.imageshack.us/my.php?image=counterclockwiseiy2.png)