You're reading from Creative Motion Mastery with Adobe After Effects Learn the ins and outs of motion graphics, post-production, rotoscoping, and VFX

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804617281

Length 332 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

After Effects

Concepts

Motion Graphics

Author (1):

Vishu Aggarwal

Preface

1. Part 1: Working with Motion Graphics

2. Chapter 1: Getting to Know the User Interface and Workflow FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Applying Effects and Presets to Create Animated Graphics

4. Chapter 3: Deep-Dive into Text Animations

5. Chapter 4: Animating Shape Layers

6. Chapter 5: Adding Motion to Photoshop and Illustrator Graphics

7. Chapter 6: Creating Motion Graphic Templates for Premiere Pro

8. Part 2: Post-Production and Visual Effects

9. Chapter 7: Color Correction and Color Grading

10. Chapter 8: Rotoscoping and Mask Tracking Techniques

11. Chapter 9: Chroma Keying

12. Chapter 10: Working with Particle Simulations

13. Part 3: 2D and 3D Tracking, and Rendering

14. Chapter 11: Working with 2D and 3D Tracking

15. Chapter 12: Exporting and Managing Projects

16. Index

17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Styling text using the Character and Paragraph panels

Now, we will see how to change text properties such as the font and font size. Open the Character panel as follows:

Go to Window | Character, or alternatively you can find the Character panel to the right of the Composition panel:

Figure 3.4: Character panel with default settings

In the Character panel, change the font to Roboto.
If the Roboto font is not already installed on your system, then you can easily install it from Adobe Fonts as follows:
1. Open Adobe Creative Cloud.
2. Go to the Stock & Marketplace tab and then the Fonts tab.
3. Search for the Roboto font and press Enter: