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Saving customized fonts with the Font Styles Library script - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Scripts & Tips: 2 Design Theory & Animation
Saving customized fonts with the Font Styles Library script
- [Instructor] Font Styles Library is a simple and convenient tool that allows you to save font attributes and quickly apply them to new text layers in your project. Font Styles Library is available for a mere 20 bucks on aescripts.com. Now, I know it's not free, but it's pretty much worth the price, trust me. Go ahead and download, copy it to your scripts UI folder, and restart After Effects to complete installation and then continue. I'll jump over to my project file here where I'm in Chapter Four, Typography Scripts, 02_Font Styles Library. In my composition, I have a few different font text layers, and I'm only worried about this one that says Font Styles Library. Now I'm going to ahead to View, Show Layer Controls just so I can see my layer controls on there, and I can turn this on and off. So, this Font Styles Library, that's what I'm concerned with. Also, because I'll be adjusting things like the font and character and size, I'm going to go into my Window and I'm going to open…
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