• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  text expressions for character size and tracking

  Posted by Bart Stevens on April 1, 2020 at 12:21 am

  I’m a novice working with expressions, and trying to figure out a way to control text character size and tracking with a slider control.
  I know in AE 2020 these text variables can be controlled with expressions with the drop down menu.
  I can manually control with this:
  newStyle = style.setTracking(30);
  newStyle = style.setFontSize(10)
  I just want to link those values to a slider.
  Any help is greatly appreciated.
  Thanks!

  Bart Stevens replied 6 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
• 2 Replies

• 

  Dan Ebberts

  April 1, 2020 at 1:01 am

  Try it this way:

  tracking = effect(“Tracking”)(“Slider”);
  fontSize = effect(“Font Size”)(“Slider”);
  newStyle = style.setTracking(tracking);
  newStyle.setFontSize(fontSize);

  Dan
• 

  Bart Stevens

  April 1, 2020 at 2:45 pm

  Works perfect….Thank you Dan!

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