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.