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Problem with Stroke around Typography

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October 20, 2025
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Hello Adobe Community,

I've ran into a small issue while applying stroke Animators on certain type layers.
It seems that on certain typefaces, or only certain weights of certain typefaces, the stroke doesn't generate completely correctly on some letters. In the example here it's the top end of the 'K' that gets tapered in a weird way.

When converted to shapes in After Effects, the clipping of the stroke disappears. I don't know what about it being a type layer makes it behave this way. When converted to shapes in Illustrator the typography seems like it shouldn't have any issue to draw a curve around it, there are no double vertexes or other weird inconsistencies with it that would.
This project needs to work with editable typelayers, so converting it to a shape layer is not an option.

Does anybody have any experience with this? Know of any ways to resolve this issue?
Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

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Roland Kahlenberg

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You're looking at the Line Join setting and this is currently set to Miter. You can access the Line Join options via the Character Panel's Hamburger Menu. Unfortunately, there is no way to increase this value in AE.

FWIW, you will also encounter the Line Join parameter in a Shape Layer's Line Join parameter. Fortunately, there is a slider to adjust the Miter Limit for a Shape Layer.

HTH

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