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chamilila
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July 31, 2022
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XD to After Effects text problems

  • July 31, 2022
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Hey everyone!

 

I'm having trouble exporting artboards from an XD file to After Effects. In my original design I'm only using two typefaces: Archivo and Space Grotesk, from Google Fonts. Curiously, these are the only fonts that After Effects appears to be unable to process? In the screenshots you can see I have an artboard with multiple text layers in different typefaces, and the top 4 (which are all Archivo and Space Grotesk layers) get imported as Myriad Pro, whereas the bottom 4 typefaces were imported properly.

 

I found I'm able to manually change the typeface to Archivo or Space Grotesk on After Effects after I've imported, but it would take me a huge amount of time to do that to every layer in my project. What could be causing this problem? 

 

 

Thanks in advance

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Correct answer Spas K.

You can try not to use the variable weight files at all, maybe reinstall the problematic fonts without them and see if that fixes it. There are some google fonts available on Adobe Fonts as well, perhaps you could activate these ones from there and try to solve the issue that way. Don't use that workflow too often, so I can't say why exactly this might be happening. Will try it myself and see if I get any issues if I find the time.

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Spas K.
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Spas K.Community Expert
Community Expert
August 1, 2022

Hey there. How are the fonts installed? Are you using some fonts manager that is syncing them for use on your machine, or have you downloaded the font files and installed them manually? Are the other fonts installed the same way?

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    chamililaAuthor
    Inspiring
    August 1, 2022

    Hey! I'm not using a font manager. I've downloaded the fonts from Google Fonts and installed them manually. The fonts from Adobe Fonts seem to work best. The fonts I've downloaded from Google Fonts seem to be the problem, although some of them work and some don't. I'm guessing it could be the varaible weight files. Is there any solution to this?

    Spas K.
    Community Expert
    Spas K.Community ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    August 1, 2022

    You can try not to use the variable weight files at all, maybe reinstall the problematic fonts without them and see if that fixes it. There are some google fonts available on Adobe Fonts as well, perhaps you could activate these ones from there and try to solve the issue that way. Don't use that workflow too often, so I can't say why exactly this might be happening. Will try it myself and see if I get any issues if I find the time.

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