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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, 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.

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