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 Editing, Character Settings
Key Insights
- Use 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 spacing between individual characters.
- Tracking adjusts the spacing between groups of characters.
- Typography enhances text readability, not just aesthetics.
- Use leading to control line spacing in text.
- Faux styles can be applied for bold and italic effects.
- Vertical and horizontal scaling can modify text appearance.
- Subscript and superscript options are available for selected text.
