Thanks for this! I'd definitely use this method for larger bodies of copy. It really is a shame that there's no straightforward way to do this in AE but I appreciate the effort you've gone to, thanks again! ... View more

Thanks for the response! I get that there may not be an example for metrics and optical, but if I created a layer kerning each character in place manually would there be a way to animate between manual kerning at point 1 to manual kerning at point 2? Just in the interest of not having to animate the position of 20 odd separate layers. ... View more