From the course: After Effects: Principles of Motion Graphics
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Choose wisely: Typefaces - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects: Principles of Motion Graphics
Choose wisely: Typefaces
- [Instructor] The visual representation of a font is called the typeface. And in this video, we're going to talk in generalities about some of the main different kinds of typefaces. So as I showed in the process video, I'm actually starting with white type on a black background, so we can actually really just sort of focus on the style of the type itself. So in my zero two zero two typefaces project, I'm going to double click on the title_01 composition to open it here in the timeline and in the composition panel. Now the title design that we're working with is called Mixology: The Art of Concoction. Now I've done a very simple layout here where we have a visual hierarchy that we've created with a very large version of the word mixology and then smaller versions of the subtitle, the art of concoction. That way, there's no doubt as to what people should be reading first and then what is below that. So this general…
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