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Inspiring
Sep 28, 2022 9:41 AM UTC
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Please bring all OpenType features to After Effects

Typography is an important part of many animations. With the great amount of options designers have with OpenType-Fonts every aspect of a font should be accessible in a modern animation software.

Please add all OpenType-Options as seen in the Photoshop Character Panel to be natively accessible in After Effects.

22 replies

Riccardo22615942gxsp
Participant
May 11, 2026 9:53 AM UTC

1 year later and we still waiting. Literally damaging the work of thousand of motion designer, finally switching to cavalry

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Participant
Jul 14, 2025 9:48 AM UTC

I want & need OpenType feature support as well!

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Manaus
Inspiring
May 28, 2025 3:08 PM UTC

Cavalry managed to pull it off with a recent update (2)

It's so limiting not having full support

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Participant
Mar 19, 2025 6:23 PM UTC

@Mylenium Cavalry managed to pull it off with a recent update

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gbodfish
Participant
Mar 19, 2025 5:10 PM UTC

There is a criminal level of neglect on Adobe's software side. Laughable they call this a professional tool at this point. I guess that's what happens when you are a monopoly buying out your competition over the years and then poorly duct-taping the sh!t together and calling it "fully integrated."

 

But yeah, just popping in to say this is still a big issue 3 years after the original post and has been an issue for many years more than that.

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Participant
Jul 14, 2023 12:32 AM UTC

It is absolutely mind boggling that this isn't exist. What am I even paying for?

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Szalam
Community Expert
Community Expert
Mar 21, 2023 6:39 PM UTC

Glyphs, at the very least, please. I dislike having to fire up Illustrator just to get some glyphs to copy and paste into AE.

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mr.pabs
Participating Frequently
Nov 23, 2022 2:37 AM UTC

A big part of my work in AE is animating texts. I work with many designers and most of them work in Illustrator and InDesign. I receive artwork created by them which often contains other glyphs that are part of the character set, but when bringing them to AE, they get swapped to the default characters. This obviously changes the look of certain words, and messes up the entire workflow. Because in order to animate a word, I need to outline it, therefore losing the ability to apply type animators. The same goes to MOGRTs in Premiere. I would love to be able to bring specific glyphs from any other adobe program - in the same way it was set up. 

Please please please!

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OussK
Community Expert
Community Expert
Nov 23, 2022 4:16 AM UTC

As I know if you use the same font you should get the same in AE, anyway since you import a lot of text from illustrator try to use this plugin https://www.battleaxe.co/overlord it allows you to import the illustrator shapes and text in a better way.

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Participant
Sep 28, 2022 10:27 AM UTC
Bring all OpenType features and variable fonts, how is this so hard to understand? Adobe is horrible
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Participant
Sep 28, 2022 10:27 AM UTC
We need this! I work a lot with fonts in AE, and it is frustrating!
Please, Adobe, you can do it.
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