With the addition of Variable Type to Illustrator, I would love to see supported in After Effects. The ability to interpolate between the many variables available would be a huge benefit in motion design, streamlining the current process and saving eons of time from the current arduous method. It would open doors to some pretty amazing things.
Agree, it should work within AfterEffects without any extra plugin. I am not sure if this is still true, but at the beginning 'varifont' was ignoring glyph substitutions (often seen in for example the character 'dollar') and other issues as well. Why I ended up using 'drawbot' for the font animations and hand this over to the animations team which were adding and using it within AfterEffects.
Mickaël, I agree, and the imperfections are mostly due to how terrible Adobe AfterEffect's plugin APIs are 😞 Now that Figma has today launched support, I hope more design tool developers will see the need for this important function 🙂
Ivo, I believe Varifont v2 recently releaed now supports glyph substitutions. This plug-in was essential to the development of the "roboto flex" and "roboto serif" release videos, which would not have been possible to design and produce using drawbot...
With that text can be easily animated in a proper way without stretching a font and so on. I know there are plugins for that out there, which are cool, but I’m sure it can be done in a permanent way inside of AE much more efficient. Eventually even with more features / better interface. With that many more people would benefit directly by having such a tool in AE. Besides the web and applications, it is animations where variable fonts really shine.
Hello Community, I wanted to let you know you can use and animate Variable Fonts in AE using VariFont, a third-party available on aescripts.com
The plugin is actively developed, and friendly encouraged by Google Fonts and many other type foundries. Let us know if you are an existing user and have any feedback.
Please add support for variable fonts! Yesterday I saw a presentation by a motion designer, and we all agreed that there should be a better integration of variable font support in After Effects. So, pleeeeease make it possible.
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