Font weights in Premiere vs After Effects?

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August 8, 2025
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I've got some rendered After Effects motion graphics with a particular font in my timeline, and I'm temping out some additional wording to it in Premiere for the client before redoing it all in AE. But when I add type to it in Premiere, the font weight is different in Premiere than it is in the AE render. The font is Ansage Light XP, and when scaled to the exact same font size as the AE render, it looks more like the Regular XP or Medium XP weight. In both Premiere and AE, only the Light XP weight is available, or in the macOS Font Book (I only bought the one OTF font weight from MyFonts). What's going on?

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POwensAuthor

Inspiring

I've sent you the graphic in a DM - can't show it publicly. Premiere version is 2025.1.

Re. scaling - the type is scaled using Font Size in Properties. And yes the Fill colour matches fine.

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Dani_V.

Community Manager

Hi @POwens,

Thank you for reporting a problem and sorry for the frustration. What Premiere Pro version are you on? Could you share screenshots of what the Premiere Pro font looks like vs. the After Effects render, and the text properties?

From where are you scaling it to match the font size? Through the Effect Controls panel under Graphics > Vector Motion > Scale? Through Text > Transform properties? Or through Video > Motion > Scale? Do you see the same font weight difference if you keep the scales at 100% and only change the font size itself to match?

Besides double-checking to see if any Stroke or Faux Bold is applied in Text properties, does the fill color match as well between the two?

Hope we can help you soon,
Dani

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