From the course: After Effects Scripts & Tips: 2 Design Theory & Animation
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Customizing font files with FontForge - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Scripts & Tips: 2 Design Theory & Animation
Customizing font files with FontForge
- [Instructor] Sometimes you'll find yourself working with a specific font, and it's nearly perfect except there are a few things you wish were different. Perhaps the cross of the letter T extends too far and overwraps other letters. Perhaps a handmade font looks great except for the tail of the lowercase Y, which you want to add a little more flourish to. Whatever the reason is, there really isn't a simple solution to fix this in After Effects. For example, in my project here, I have a logo for the fictional company Visual Xtreme, with a little blurb about the company below it. Visual Xtreme is the most Xtreme visuals ever made throughout the most Xtremest world visuals like totally Xtremely ever made ever and stuff. That is a sick blurb, and as you can see, here in the Visual Xtreme logo, the X in the middle for Xtreme is a V and an X. Rad logo. Now, they have made sure that every instance of the word Xtreme in their copy below is spelled X-treme, X-treme, X-tremest, X-tremely…
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