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hellopaul4
Inspiring
October 23, 2023
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Character Styles palette for AE?

  • October 23, 2023
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I think I may have suggested this many years ago, but it's worth another go:


What are the chances of seeing a character/paragraph style palette in AE? I'm sure I'm not alone in finding the method of copying/pasting a bit of text from a "desired" style into a new text layer, before deleting it and pasting/typing some unformatted text, so it matches the desired style. With the introduction, some time ago, of the ability to access text styles/fonts/etc via scripting/expressions, I'd have thought it wouldn't be too hard to implement an InDesign/Illustrator character style palette. Wouldn't that be nice?

 

(I know I could probably do this using mogrt templates and things, but that's an awkward and time-consuming workaround).

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_nicdean
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 23, 2023

I like this idea. There's also a free tool for copy + pasting text styles between layers called Style Bandit.

hellopaul4
Inspiring
October 23, 2023

We can live in hope...maybe if enough people upvote my idea (hint! hint!)!

Mylenium
Legend
October 23, 2023
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What are the chances of seeing a character/paragraph style palette in AE?

 

Slim at best? Just saying. There's so much dysfunctional stuff with text layers, including text style expressions, it probably wouldn't make much sense to have a palette until these things have been ironed out.

 

Mylenium