Copy and paste ligature from Illustrator to After Effects

[gbodfish]

Trying to copy and paste an 'ff' ligature to After Effects but it is not working. Most times this is my solve since After Effects doesn't have a glyphs palette. Any ideas why or how to fix the issue? Font is Mrs. Eaves from Adobe Fonts.

Also, why has Adobe not added a glyphs palette to After Effects? This is a motion graphics software and type design should have more priority than this in the modern day.

[nishu_kush]

You're correct. After Effects doesn't have support for Glyphs. That must be the reason that pasting Ligatures doesn't show the correct preview. Pasting Glyphs is working well for me though. Outlining the text in Illustrator and then importing the Ai file could be the way around. Feel free to add your vote to the following post: https://adobe.ly/3DBJ0gk

Thanks,
Nishu

[gbodfish]

When I copy and paste the 'tt' glyph from Illustrator in the same font and specs, it is pasted as two separate t's in After Effects. It just isn't working. I've copy and pasted from AI in the past to do this but it seems something has changed. This kind of stuff is such a pain in the a$$

[thepixelsmith]

I don't know if you tried this.

Open the Character panel, Window > Character

Click on the Character pane's menu and enable Ligatures.

[gbodfish]

When I check the ligatures box in AE and then copy and paste the ligature from AI it pastes in two separate t's and unchecks the ligatures box.