# Makie - Is there a way to draw text on the surface of a mesh?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-is-there-a-way-to-draw-text-on-the-surface-of-a-mesh/105290>\
**Category:** Visualization\
**Tags:** makie\
**Created:** [October 22, 2023, 11:12pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-is-there-a-way-to-draw-text-on-the-surface-of-a-mesh/105290 "2023-10-22T23:12:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![wherrera](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/wherrera/32/5288_2.png) [@wherrera](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/wherrera)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2023, 11:12pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-is-there-a-way-to-draw-text-on-the-surface-of-a-mesh/105290/1 "2023-10-22T23:12:19Z")

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Hello. Is there a way in Makie to draw text on the surface of a mesh?

that is to say if I have

```
fig = figure()
mesh!(fig[1,1], v, t)
text!(fig[1,1], -0.4, 0.2, 0.4; text = "OK")

```

is there a way to have the text be placed projected on the mesh surface?

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**Author:** ![jules](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@jules](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jules)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2023, 9:11am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-is-there-a-way-to-draw-text-on-the-surface-of-a-mesh/105290/2 "2023-10-23T09:11:02Z")

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Are you saying as if it was a texture? You’d have to roundtrip through an actual texture then, but this could also be done with Makie’s own tools.