• Adobe After Effects

  Random Character Font Style

  Posted by Nate Hess on October 6, 2020 at 8:38 pm

  I am attempting to enable an expression that lets me randomly (from a preselected set of fonts) change the character style/font. I have the expression set to cycle between a couple different styles of the same font, but I wanted it to randomly change by character and not the entire text. Each letter of the word will randomly flip through a font in no particular order.

  Here is the current expression that I’m working with…based on an expression I pulled from a tutorial. Any help is much appreciated!

  var Array = [

  “CROOKED-Bold”,

  “CROOKED-Regular”,

  ];

  hold = 0.09;

  seed = Math.floor(time/hold);

  seedRandom(seed,true);

  r = Math.round(random(1));

  style.setFont(Array[r]);

  Graham Quince replied 5 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Graham Quince

  October 17, 2020 at 7:21 am

  Unfortunately, After Effects doesn’t have the ability to change per character styling via expressions – it’s all the text or nothing.

  You could fake randomness by creating sourcetext keyframes with lots of different changes, then use an expression to randomly choose a keyframe (I think that is doable) or you could use precomps for each letter, with each frame being a different font, then use time remapping to randomly select the frame. And with Essential Graphics, you’d only have to make one precomp.

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