Adobe After Effects User Manual
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When choosing fonts and styles from the menus in the Character panel, press Enter (Windows) or Return (Mac OS) to accept an entry, or
press Esc to exit the menu without applying a change.
For information about what fonts are installed with After Effects CS5, see these pages on the Adobe website:
You can use the Adobe Font Finder on the
to browse and search fonts by various characteristics.
Choose a font family
Click in the Font Family menu box, and begin typing the name. Continue typing until the desired font family name appears.
To choose the previous or next font family in the menu, place the pointer over the Font Family menu box and use your mouse scroll wheel;
or click in the Font Family menu box, and press the Up Arrow or Down Arrow.
Click the arrow to the right of the Font Family menu box, and press the key for the first letter of the font family name. Press the key again to
advance through the font families with names that begin with that letter.
Choose a font style
Choose from the Font Style menu in the Character panel.
If the font family you chose does not include a bold or italic style, you can click the Faux Bold button
or the Faux Italic button
in the
Character panel to apply a simulated style.
Choose a font size
Enter or select a new value for Size
in the Character panel.
Spacing between characters and lines: non-breaking spaces, kerning, tracking, and leading
Leading is the spacing between lines of text. Kerning is the process of adding or subtracting space between specific letter pairs. Tracking is the
process of creating an equal amount of spacing across a range of letters. Positive kerning or tracking values move characters apart (increasing the
spacing from the default); negative values move characters closer together (reducing the spacing from the default).
When you open a project that was last saved in After Effects 6.0, text in the project may lie differently than in After Effects 6.0 because of
improvements in kerning behavior.
Tracking and manual kerning are cumulative, so you can first adjust individual pairs of letters and then tighten or loosen a block of text without
affecting the relative kerning of the letter pairs.
Values for kerning and tracking affect Japanese text, but normally these options are used to adjust the aki (spacing) between Roman
characters.
Create a non-breaking space
If a set of characters is set to be non-breaking, the characters animate together as if they were a single word.
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