From the course: After Effects Tips and Techniques: Shapes, Text Masks, and Path Effects
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Paragraph kerning and punctuation - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Tips and Techniques: Shapes, Text Masks, and Path Effects
Paragraph kerning and punctuation
- In this movie I want to show you how you can control paragraph kerning and punctuation. And specifically, I want to discuss typography color inside After Effects. By that I mean not the color of the text itself but the contrast appearance of the text on screen. When you work with blocks of text as supporting graphical elements, they should look as seamless and coherent as possible. These are of course general principles of print and good typography. And they do apply to motion design as well. So in order to show you what I mean, I want to switch to full view and generate a quick RAM preview of what we have over here so you get a sense of the typography elements that we are going to work with. Okay, I'm going to stop the RAM preview and press end in order for you to see the text elements that we are going to work with. So even if the viewer doesn't suppose to read the content of this text, this is just a placeholder text, by the way, and you're using the text block as a decorative…
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