In this tutorial, join the Mograph Mindset team and learn everything about the new per-character text styles in After Effects 2025. Start off with the basics, then build a template to bold one word at a time. By the end of this video, you'll be an expert in text style expressions!

Author Notes

In this tutorial, I am joined by Kyle Hamrick to teach you EVERYTHING about the new per-character text styles in After Effects 2025. We start off with the basics, and then build a template to bold one word at a time. By the end of this video you will be an expert in text style expressions.

You will learn how to:

• Bold one word in Text Layer

• Mix fonts in Text Layer

• Align paragraph expression

• Link expressions to Text Animators

At the end, we speak to John Colombo from the Adobe After Effects team for his tips on getting the best performance from these new features. John built an Animation Preset that you can use in your own projects to combine Style Expressions & Text Animators.

⬇️ Download the Text Style Expressions preset on Gumroad: https://kylasaurusrex.gumroad.com/l/t...

Watch the full interview with John Colombo:    • After Effects Engineer Answers Questi...  

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See more of Kyle's work:

https://KyleHamrick.com

Vote for setJustification()

https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-...

Vote for setStyleAt()

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AE Text Style Expression Documentation

https://ae-expressions.docsforadobe.d...

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Captioneer extension for Premiere Pro

https://aescripts.com/captioneer/

Free Plugins for After Effects

https://www.mogrts.nyc/tools

▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬

00:00 - Intro

00:43 - Basics of Text Styles

08:06 - New! Per-Character Styling

09:10 - Horizontal Scaling

10:09 - Per-Character Fonts

15:17 - Performance Considerations

15:55 - Paragraph Alignment

20:06 - MOGRT Export

23:32 - Intermission

23:54 - Use Text Animators

29:03 - Combine Style + Animators

34:46 - Per-Word Text Styles

41:52 - Multi-Word Text Styles

46:53 - Recap

47:35 - Interview with John Colombo

58:32 - Outro

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