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Luisa Winters

Instructor and consultant for Adobe products

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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, Design

Key Insights

  • Use the character and paragraph panels for text adjustments.
  • Select text to apply changes effectively.
  • Scrub values for dynamic adjustments in font size.
  • Leading affects the distance between lines of text.
  • Kerning adjusts the space between individual characters.
  • Typography focuses on making text easy to read.
  • Tracking controls the spacing between all characters.
  • Utilize faux styles for quick text modifications.
  • Vertical and horizontal scaling can enhance text appearance.
  • Subscript and superscript options are available for selected text.

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