After Effects Beta - Text Font Weight Change

Today we’re announcing a small but perhaps impactful change in AE Beta x28 and we’d really like your feedback on it.

We are changing the font weight for many of the After Effects UI elements from bold to normal weight. This will make the text in After Effects betas moving forward more closely match the look of the text in previous stable releases of After Effects.

We’ve done internal testing and found this increases both legibility and readability when compared to the bolder font weight; particularly when using higher display resolutions or lower display scaling. 

We expect you’ll notice this change most in the Timeline panel, but it’s also changing the Project, Effect Controls Panel, and some others. Please let us know if you find increased clarity in the text or if you notice any decrease in readability. If you do have any decrease, please tell us your operating system, your screen resolution, and any display scaling.