In this tutorial, I am joined by Kyle Hamrick to teach you EVERYTHING about the new per-character text styles in After Effects 2025. We start off with the basics, and then build a template to bold one word at a time. By the end of this video you will be an expert in text style expressions.
You will learn how to:
• Bold one word in Text Layer
• Mix fonts in Text Layer
• Align paragraph expression
• Link expressions to Text Animators
At the end, we speak to John Colombo from the Adobe After Effects team for his tips on getting the best performance from these new features. John built an Animation Preset that you can use in your own projects to combine Style Expressions & Text Animators.
⬇️ Download the Text Style Expressions preset on Gumroad:
https://kylasaurusrex.gumroad.com/l/textstylepreset
Watch the full interview with John Colombo:
https://youtu.be/PqIBWZshEes
▬ Links ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
See more of Kyle's work:
https://KyleHamrick.com
Vote for setJustification()
https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects-bugs/bug-setjustification-broken-when-combined-with-settext/idi-p/15135855#M14039
Vote for setStyleAt()
https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects-ideas/setstyleat-method-for-text-style-expressions/idi-p/15135910#M4203
AE Text Style Expression Documentation
https://ae-expressions.docsforadobe.dev/text/style/
▬ Plugins ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
Captioneer extension for Premiere Pro
https://captioneer.com
Free Plugins for After Effects
https://www.mogrts.nyc/tools
▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
00:00 - Intro
00:43 - Basics of Text Styles
08:06 - New! Per-Character Styling
09:10 - Horizontal Scaling
10:09 - Per-Character Fonts
15:17 - Performance Considerations
15:55 - Paragraph Alignment
20:06 - MOGRT Export
23:32 - Intermission
23:54 - Use Text Animators
29:03 - Combine Style + Animators
34:46 - Per-Word Text Styles
41:52 - Multi-Word Text Styles
46:53 - Recap
47:35 - Interview with John Colombo
58:32 - Outro