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Text Color Expression
Hello, Is there a way to type a text and tell it that I want every second letter in a specific color?
example.. lets say I’m typing the word “SCHOOL”. and I want the S to be in color #1, C to be in color #2, H again in color #1..etc.
I need like a preset because I work for a TV channel that has a specific graphic kit that involves this sort of design with different titles every time and It’s very frustrating to go letter by letter and change the color…a preset could really save me a lot of time.
thank you.
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5 Replies
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This would be one way to do it. Set your text up in color 1. Add a fill color Animator and set it to color 2. Add and expression selector and set its Amount expression to this:
textIndex%2 ? 0 : 100
That should set letters 2,4,6… to color 2. I’m guessing you could save that as a preset, but I haven’t tried it.
Dan
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that’s brilliant!! it works!!
only one problem though….how can i tell the expression to ignore spaces? now when i type a new word in the text layer it treats the space as a character and the result is 2 letters in the same color..the last letter of the first word, and the first letter in the second word…
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In the expression selector, set Based On to Characters Excluding Spaces.
Dan
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You have no idea how much time you saved me. it’s work perfect now. thank you!!
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Hi Dan!
I Have a similar question: i need to set the last character from my text-layer to a different color. unfortunately this is a letter that comes from the expression below
can you tell me how to set this “|” to a different color than the rest of the text?
Thanks in advance!
boomziboi
L = text.sourceText.length;
T = time*effect("Speed")("Slider") - effect("Start At")("Slider")*effect("Speed")("Slider");
F = Math.round(time % 1);
if(F == 1 | (T0) ){Fl = "|";}else{Fl=" ";}
substr(0,T) + Fl
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