diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas.rs
index 55881fea6a..708f985fe4 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas.rs
@@ -4639,9 +4639,9 @@ pub fn canvas_view(app: &mut PhotocraftApp, ui: &mut egui::Ui, idx: usize, rect:
                 draw_clone_preview(app, &painter, &xf, xf.to_doc(p), output);
             }
             // The Type tool over a path shows Photoshop's area-type or type-on-a-path pointer (#218).
-            // Not while a type edit is open (a click then commits rather than starting new type),
-            // nor over type a click would edit.
-            let type_path = if matches!(tool, Tool::Type | Tool::VerticalType) && app.ui.text_edit.is_none() {
+            // Not while a type edit is open or a text box is dragged out, nor over type a click
+            // would edit (`hover_path_target`).
+            let type_path = if matches!(tool, Tool::Type | Tool::VerticalType) {
                 let [x, y] = xf.to_doc(p);
                 let shift = crate::workspace_ui::sticky_mods(app, ui.input(|i| i.modifiers)).shift;
                 crate::type_tool::hover_path_target(app, x, y, shift)
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/type_tool.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/type_tool.rs
index f7b0aa3609..fd43ed6f7a 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/type_tool.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/type_tool.rs
@@ -459,8 +459,13 @@ pub(crate) fn path_target(app: &PhotocraftApp, x: f64, y: f64) -> Option<PathCli
 /// What the Type tool's pointer over document `(x, y)` shows (#218): the path click a press there
 /// would make, unless the press edits the type layer under it instead (`pointer_down`: an
 /// unshifted press on shown type), where Photoshop keeps the plain I-beam. The type hit is only
-/// tested over a path, so a hover elsewhere lays out nothing.
+/// tested over a path, so a hover elsewhere lays out nothing. Nothing while a type edit is open
+/// (a click then commits rather than starting new type) or during a drag (dragging out a text
+/// box, whose release makes a box, not path type).
 pub(crate) fn hover_path_target(app: &mut PhotocraftApp, x: f64, y: f64, shift: bool) -> Option<PathClick> {
+    if app.ui.text_edit.is_some() || app.drag.is_some() {
+        return None;
+    }
     let target = path_target(app, x, y)?;
     (shift || hit_layer(app, x, y).is_none()).then_some(target)
 }
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/type_tool_tests.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/type_tool_tests.rs
index 8297cfd8fd..65fc3d2e18 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/type_tool_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/type_tool_tests.rs
@@ -2837,6 +2837,23 @@ fn clicking_on_a_path_outline_starts_type_on_the_path_where_clicked() {
     );
 }
 
+/// The path pointer shows what a click would do: none while a text box is dragged out over a
+/// path (the release makes a box) or while a type edit is open (a click commits).
+#[test]
+fn the_path_pointer_is_off_while_dragging_a_text_box_or_editing() {
+    use crate::canvas::{ToolEvent, tool_event};
+    let mut app = new_app();
+    ellipse_layer(&mut app);
+    assert!(matches!(super::hover_path_target(&mut app, 400.0, 350.0, false), Some(PathClick::Area { .. })), "a hover inside the shape");
+    tool_event(&mut app, ToolEvent::Down { x: 1200.0, y: 700.0, pressure: 1.0 }, Modifiers::NONE);
+    tool_event(&mut app, ToolEvent::Move { x: 400.0, y: 350.0, pressure: 1.0 }, Modifiers::NONE);
+    assert!(app.drag.is_some(), "dragging out a box");
+    assert!(super::hover_path_target(&mut app, 400.0, 350.0, false).is_none(), "the drag makes a box, not area type");
+    tool_event(&mut app, ToolEvent::Up { x: 400.0, y: 350.0 }, Modifiers::NONE);
+    assert!(app.ui.text_edit.is_some(), "the box is being edited");
+    assert!(super::hover_path_target(&mut app, 400.0, 350.0, false).is_none(), "a click now commits");
+}
+
 #[test]
 fn click_outside_paths_still_makes_point_text() {
     use photocraft_doc::text::TextShape;