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Dean GregoryRandom Font for every Text Layer
by on Aug 2, 2011 at 2:43:45 pm

Hi there,

I'm trying to come up with an expression for accessing the font info in After Effects.

What I have is an array of multiple repeating words(say the word 'Design') that's slowly moving randomly on the X-axis.

The text is also displaced along Z-axis randomly.

This looks very plain as all the words have the same font.

All's fine with the animation as well, but was wondering if I could now randomly change the font used for every word (i.e Design) to have a different look.

I'm not too sure how to do this as the pick-whip for one will not access the Font menu.

Is there any additional attribute to add say in sourcetext like 'font' or 'font-family'.

My thought was to access the font list if possible and then use random() to tag a random font to the text-layer.

Have been struggling with this for a week now. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks!

AE version = CS5

Cheers,

Dean Gregory



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