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To choose a font family and style
When you select a font, you can select the font family and its font style independently. The font family is a collection
of fonts sharing an overall typeface design; for example, Times. A font style is a variant version of an individual font
in the font family; for example, regular, bold, or italic. The range of available font styles varies with each font. If a font
doesn't include the style you want, you can apply faux styles—simulated versions of bold, italic, superscript,
subscript, all caps, and small caps styles.
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Choose a font family from the Font Family menu in the Character panel. If more than one copy of a font is
installed on your computer, an abbreviation follows the font name: (T1) for Type 1 fonts, (TT) for TrueType fonts,
or (OT) for OpenType fonts.
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Do one of the following:
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Choose a font style from the Font Style menu in the Character panel.
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If the font family you chose does not include a bold or italic style, you can click the Faux Bold button
Faux Italic button
in the Character panel to apply a simulated style. Or you can choose Faux Bold or Faux Italic
from the Character panel menu.
You can choose a font family and style by typing the desired name in the text box. As you type, the name of the first
font or style beginning with that letter appears. Continue typing until the correct font or style name appears.
To choose a font size
The font size determines how large the type appears in the image. In After Effects, the unit of measurement for fonts
is pixels. When a text layer is at 100% scale value, the pixel values match composition pixels one-to-one. So if you
scale the text layer to 200%, the font size will appear to double; for example, a font size of 10 pixels will look like 20
pixels. Because After Effects continuously rasterizes text, the resolution remains high when you increase the scale
values.
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In the Character panel, enter or select a new value for Size
To use smart quotes
Smart quotes, or printer's quotation marks, use a curved left or right quotation mark instead of straight quotation
marks.
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Choose Use Smart Quotes from the Character panel menu.
To specify leading
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In the Character panel, do one of the following:
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Choose the desired leading from the Leading menu
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Select the existing leading value, and enter a new value.
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Drag the blue underlined leading value.
Filling and outlining text
For text, a fill is applied to the area inside the shape of an individual character; a stroke is applied to the shape or
outline of the character. After Effects applies a stroke to a character by centering the stroke on the character's path;
half of the stroke appears on one side of the path, and the other half of the stroke appears on the other side of the path.
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