Chrome 149 global rollout, shape-outside jumps from five basic shapes to arbitrary curves, native support at the rendering layer means performance is vastly improved. The front-end layout paradigm is about to change.

ego announces that the shape() contributed to Chromium has been merged into the main branch, and Chrome 149 will globally roll out this feature. The text can now be wrapped along any Bézier curve with just a single line of CSS, completely replacing existing JavaScript layout methods. Previously, shape-outside only supported five basic shapes; this time, allowing the browser's rendering layer to directly handle curved text layout significantly reduces overhead. A proposal has been submitted to Interop 2026, calling for Safari and Firefox to follow suit.