Character
Adjust character settings such as font, size, style and kerning.
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Learning Outcomes:
- Adjust character settings in After Effects
- Modify font size, style, and color
- Understand kerning and tracking for readability
Level: Intermediate
Skills you'll gain:
After Effects, Typography, Text Formatting, Kerning
Key Insights
- Use the character and paragraph panels for text adjustments.
- Select text to apply changes in After Effects.
- Scrubbing numbers allows dynamic font size adjustments.
- Kerning affects the space between two characters.
- Tracking adjusts the space between all characters.
- Typography focuses on making text easy to read.
- Letting controls the distance between lines of text.
- Vertical and horizontal scale can modify text appearance.
- Faux bold and italic options are available for text.
- Subscript and superscript can enhance text formatting.