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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
  • Change font size, style, and color
  • Understand kerning and tracking for readability

Level: Intermediate

Skills you'll gain:

After Effects, Typography, Text Formatting, Character Adjustment

Key Insights

  • Use the character and paragraph panels for text adjustments.
  • Select text to apply changes effectively.
  • Scrub numbers for dynamic font size adjustments.
  • Kerning affects the space between two characters.
  • Tracking adjusts the space between all characters.
  • Typography enhances text readability, not just aesthetics.
  • Utilize leading to control line spacing.
  • Explore faux bold and italic options for selected text.
  • Understand baseline shift for vertical text adjustments.
  • Use subscript and superscript for specific character formatting.

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