• imageType

    A powerful toolset for animating text layers in After Effects. Highlight, underline, add blinking cursors, format numbers, add monospacing, create text boxes, split text, and more.

    https://aescripts.com/type/


  • support rtl languages? 
  • support rtl languages? 

    The blinking cursor and typewriter does. I have not thoroughly tested all of the other features but they should work fine with rtl. If not, you can let me know and I will patch.
  • I haven't bought it yet but I would just like to say that the presentation video is brilliant and very explicit! Such a must have script  !
  • The biggest issue with any and all the scripts that split text (character, word & lines) is that the text will lose at least some of it's formatting. For an example if something is word is in BOLD/ITALIC or you have changed the font of different words or even letter's within the text layer. I assume it's a technical issue and it wouldn't be possible to make a tool that would retain these? 

    Great tool though. Have to upgrade at some point from Monotize! 


  • The biggest issue with any and all the scripts that split text (character, word & lines) is that the text will lose at least some of it's formatting. For an example if something is word is in BOLD/ITALIC or you have changed the font of different words or even letter's within the text layer. I assume it's a technical issue and it wouldn't be possible to make a tool that would retain these? 

    Great tool though. Have to upgrade at some point from Monotize! 


    Yeah, unfortunately it is a limitation with the After Effects API. Anytime you use a script or expression on source text, it reverts all the text to the style of the first character.
  • I haven't bought it yet but I would just like to say that the presentation video is brilliant and very explicit! Such a must have script  !
    Thank you! :D
  • the Make Text Flow up button isnt working for me...
  • the Make Text Flow up button isnt working for me...
    Thanks for purchasing! The Text Up button won't appear to do anything initially, but as line breaks are added to your text (either manually or via Typewriter function) the text will flow up instead of down.
  • Hey,
    What about meddle eastern text? RTL
  • Hey,
    What about meddle eastern text? RTL

    Yes, the blinking cursor includes an RTL option. The other functions should work with RTL as well. If you run into an issue though, just let me know and I should be able to patch quickly.
  • Hi! When press Monospacing my text disappears and i can´t recovery 
  • Hi! When press Monospacing my text disappears and i can´t recovery 
    It sounds like your text scale might have changed. Make sure this value is set to 100%.

    Monospacing will change this value, but your text should still be visible.

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  • I put the value to 100% but same problem.

    I try to modify the big number at Monotize, scale 100% 100%, but nothing happens.


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  • I put the value to 100% but same problem.

    I try to modify the big number at Monotize, scale 100% 100%, but nothing happens.


    It looks like you just need to change the color on your text. Right now your text has no fill.

    Maybe you had a stroke before? Monospacing currently does not support strokes.
  • Yep stroke option in a text!
  • Hello, please add a roundness option to the type background tool?
    Its just to add this native "round corner" to the fx menu in tool.

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  • Hey, Great tool!
    Please fix the bug when animating RTL  - in rectangle box (background color) tool, 
    are opposite to actually text position. 
    I mean until the text animation is start, then its jump to the rights place.

    Thank You!


  • Hello, please add a roundness option to the type background tool?
    Its just to add this native "round corner" to the fx menu in tool.

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    Good suggestion! I will work on adding that to the effect controls for the next version.
  • Hey, Great tool!
    Please fix the bug when animating RTL  - in rectangle box (background color) tool, 
    are opposite to actually text position. 
    I mean until the text animation is start, then its jump to the rights place.

    Thank You!


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    I'm not sure if I understand. One possible solution is to reverse the path direction on the highlight/underline/strikethrough layer. Let me know if that solves the issue. Will look to making a more permanent solution to this problem.
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  • I'm not sure if I understand. One possible solution is to reverse the path direction on the highlight/underline/strikethrough layer. Let me know if that solves the issue. Will look to making a more permanent solution to this problem.
    Hey @AE_Screens, Thank you.  I tried the path direction unfortunately didn't helped. 
    this picture describe what I meet in my case:  
    In the "before" we see the background blue color (rect_layer) outside of the direction.
    Before the (character RTL mode) text animation starts, in the "after" everything following well, 
    its start work after more the "Animation" slider (on the text layer) more than 7% .

    If it s ok I have +1 suggestion :) 
    to make option to get auto animate the "in" & "out" animated slide of this (background color "rect" layer) I mean like how it entering to the behind of the text and the end of it. (in some cases its strange that the text bg "rect" just suddenly appear, and its nice to have an option to smooth in out bg reveal

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  • Hi, I bought this tool because I'm in an urgent need to get animations done using this tool, client needs these animations today still.
    However upon install & launch of Ae I get the error below, and a blank Type panel.
    Please assist asap.  Thanks!

    ReferenceError: url is undefined
    Script File: Type.jsxbin
    Function: anonymous
    Error on Line: 898
  • Is there any way to have the text left aligned instead of centered?
  • Is there any way to have the text left aligned instead of centered?
    Yes, any function should work fine regardless of how the text is aligned.
  • Is there any way to have the text left aligned instead of centered?
    Yes, any function should work fine regardless of how the text is aligned.
    Ah, I see. The problem I am having is with also using the Box It! plugin.
    Interesting. What are you tying to do?

    Feel free to email [email protected] if that's easier.
  • This app really nails everything its designed to do and I'm having a blast animating with it.   I do have ONE request - Is there a way to do a soft fade with the typewriter animations?  If I'm animating by word then having them pop on screen one after the other 0->100% opacity with no transition is a little jarring.

    Is there a way to add a small fade option to the animator so the animation doesn't feel so abrupt?  Maybe I've missed it? Let me know :)  Thanks!
  • Hi there, could I suggest having a count down option and not just count up? I know this could be done by precomping and time-reversing but still, it would be nice as an option. thanks
  • Hi there, could I suggest having a count down option and not just count up? I know this could be done by precomping and time-reversing but still, it would be nice as an option. thanks

    This is already built in actually! Hold shift while clicking the timer and it will countdown. This is done by adjusting the start time (to comp length) and setting the timer speed to -100%
  • Hi there! The Split Text function doesn't do parenting in any way. Tried all the parenting preferences in the settings, but no one works. What could be an issue? Could you help with that? Thanks in advance. 
  • Hi there! The Split Text function doesn't do parenting in any way. Tried all the parenting preferences in the settings, but no one works. What could be an issue? Could you help with that? Thanks in advance. 
    Hmm...would you be able to open a ticket and send an aep? I don't have any ideas off the top of my head.
  • Blinking cursor does not jump to new lines of text, only works on the first line, anyone know how to fix this?
  • Hello! how do I get the countdown to look like this for 5 minutes "5:00" and not "05:00"? Thanks!
  • Hello! how do I get the countdown to look like this for 5 minutes "5:00" and not "05:00"? Thanks!
    I plan to update the tool to allow for this. In the meantime, you can update the Minutes section of the Source Text controls with this:
    // Minutes
    if (showMinutes) {
      displayMinutes = formatTime(currentTime, 60, isAutoCollapse, 60, 1);
      if (currentTime < 60 && isAutoCollapse) {
        displayMinutes = "";
      }
      div3 = (showSeconds && displayMinutes !== "") ? ":" : "";
    }

  • Hey, love type so far. One issue is the cursor feature seems completely broken if you have more than one line of text. It just bounces at the far side. Seems like an obvious fix?
  • I'm having a weird problem where the highlight doesn't line up vertically with my text, it puts the highlight too high and I have to manually lower it to line up with the text. Any idea why that could be?
  • I'm having a weird problem where the highlight doesn't line up vertically with my text, it puts the highlight too high and I have to manually lower it to line up with the text. Any idea why that could be?
    It is likely that your baseline shift is not set to 0. Try adjusting this from the Character panel and see if that solves the issue.
  • Hey, love type so far. One issue is the cursor feature seems completely broken if you have more than one line of text. It just bounces at the far side. Seems like an obvious fix?
    Yikes. That shouldn't happen. Do you already have line breaks in your text before adding the cursor?
  • I'm having a weird problem where the highlight doesn't line up vertically with my text, it puts the highlight too high and I have to manually lower it to line up with the text. Any idea why that could be?
    It is likely that your baseline shift is not set to 0. Try adjusting this from the Character panel and see if that solves the issue.
    Doh! That was it.
  • Hi there, I'm encountering a similar issue with the cursor feature. When I have more than 3-4 lines of text, the cursor stays centered and doesn't move to the end of the text. This happens whether I manually type or copy and paste. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
  • Will we get an update for AE2025 in the coming days? :)
  • I just bought this plugin, but it seems it's not available in AE2025. Is the update coming? 
  • I just bought this plugin, but it seems it's not available in AE2025. Is the update coming? 

    In the aescripts + aeplugins manager app (https://aescripts.com/learn/aescripts-aeplugins-manager-app/) right-click and select 'Custom Installation' and the version of After Effects that you are using. Please restart after installing. https://aescripts.com/knowledgebase/index/view/faq/aescripts-aeplugins-manager-app-faq/#install-latest