OpenType for After Effects, please!

It’s just crazy that Adobe is introducing AI tools before these standard TYPE needs. Been an After Effects user for 17 years and still waiting for a basic GLYPH feature. 😔

🥳 Someone finally solved that problem: https://promptymac.gumroad.com/l/glyphswap

We are using the schoolbook versions of the letters “a” and “g” in our brand, but After Effects cannot apply these stylistic alternates automatically.

This is our workaround, but it is not scalable at all:

1. In Illustrator, type your text using the Nib font.
2. Go to Window → Type → OpenType.
3. Enable Stylistic Alternates.
4. This will change the “a” and “g” to the correct schoolbook versions.
5. Copy the styled “a” and “g” from Illustrator.
6. Paste these letters directly into After Effects.

This way, the final text in After Effects will use the correct letterforms. But it is not scalable at all.
So a BIG vote from the whole team here to enable all the OpenType features.
Thank you!

I'm joining the request to be able to use OpenType stylistic sets, pleeeeeease! Copying from Illustrator isn't working at all (and it's not a fitting solution, there is no dignity in this workaround).

I've come across this thread trying to find a way to type a stylistic alternate for the font Outfit Bold from Google Fonts. There is no way in After Effects to access this alternate – there isn't even a glyphs panel! We us the alternate 1 in the package because it looks less like a 7. Because these alternate sets have the same Unicode value and rely on a different Glyph ID to separate them, copy and pasting from another app doesn't work either. The only solution is to bring it over is as outlined text.

I would also like there to be an Open Type menu like exists in Adobe Illustrator.  I have a client that uses a font with multiple "sets" of Open Type alternative glyphs. For instance, it includes the letter "a" with and without the arch. Their brand guidelines call for the "a" without an arch, but the default character used in AE is with an arch.
I appreciate the tip from Douglas_Waterfall about copy/pasting from AI, but would rather be able to set the default within AE.

Here's a Google article about using Open Type alternatives: https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/alternates

Yep,  completely understand the request. Well, I can makes some reasonable assumptions.

Curious - what sort of glyphs are you accessing via Illustrator which you are bringing into After Effects? Letters, symbols, ?

Is your workflow that you have to transform the Text into strokes while in Illustrator, then import into After Effects? You would like to keep it as live Text in After Effects?

Did you know that if you copy and paste text from Illustrator to After Effects many of the Open Type Features come with it? (two are stripped though).

Douglas Waterfall
After Effects Engineering