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 the character and paragraph panels for text adjustments.
- Select text to apply changes in After Effects.
- Scrubby numbers allow dynamic adjustments of font size.
- Kerning affects the space between two characters.
- Tracking adjusts the space between all characters.
- Typography enhances text readability, not just aesthetics.
- Leading increases the distance between lines of text.
- Utilize faux bold and italic for selected characters.
- All caps and small caps can be applied to text.
- Subscript and superscript options are available for formatting.