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Simple way to dirty white text to resemble chalk

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
August 15, 2022
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Hi there,

I'm using the plugin Scribe to give a write-on effect on a blackboard but I'm keen to make the look of the text more akin to chalk than the plain white you see in the attached picture. This can't be achieved with a font as scribe generates the text as a shape layer. I'm relatively new to AE so I'm basically wondering is there any effect or something I can apply to the layer to achieve the look of handwritten chalk along the lines of what can be achieve with certain fonts?

Thanks for your help,

Frank

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P.M.B

Legend

Try applying the "Roughen Edges" effect and maybe a subtle matte choker. If the text is moving some precomposing might be necessary as roughen edges seems to be based on screen space rather than the text itself.

~Gutterfish

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Rick Gerard

Community Expert

I don't think you'll get anything believable with a single effect. A combination of Fractal Noise as a track matte, font choice, roughen edges, gaussian blur, blend modes, and opacity on top of a decent background should give you something believable. I threw this together in about 3 minutes using an Adobe Stock image for the background.

A better font choice would help a lot. If you find the right background you could even apply Levels to a copy of that and use it as a track matte to bring the blackboard texture to the type.

ShiveringCactus

Community Expert

Thank you all for your help. That easily makes it good enough for my purposes. Much appreciated!

I know you've got all the advice you need but... there's also fonts free to use in Adobe Fonts that look like chalk:

https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/feltro#fonts-section

Mylenium

Legend

Roughen Edges can easily produce the flake-y effect of actual chalk when used with subtle soft settings.

Mylenium

Joost van der Hoeven

Community Expert

You could start here:

frankmaheraeAuthor

Inspiring

Thank you Joost but actually that's not what I'm after. I have the handwritten effect taken care of with the plugin I mentioned above. What I am looking for is some effect or treatment of some kind of the resulting shape layer that will give it the look of chalk on a blackboard. Does that make sense?

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