This is my first time ever animating a variable font I have designed. I know this is a glyphs forum, but I wanted to ask if anyone has done variable font animations in AE. This is where I am starting. All letters worked totally fine. I designed my font in Glyphs and the interpolation there is correct with the correct path direction, same number of points etc.
However I am only having one issue with specifically the letter A. If you watch this screen recording you can see that when I animate between thin and to bold, the top inside of the A starts to warp. I have also attached screenshots of my original drawing of the A for the thin and the bold. Is there any way to fix this so it doesn’t morph like that? I do need these points especially for the thin weight to get this curve right at the top.
I was hoping for a the top of the A where it is circled to stay pointy the whole time while it goes from thin to bold. Looks janky!
Does After Effects actually load variable fonts or do you load static fonts and morph them in AE? In that case, you need to make sure that you export the font without removing overlaps.
I do have Varifont, but I have noticed that whenever I update the spacing or kerning pairs on my fonts, it never updates the fonts in Varifont, you also can’t kern in Varifont either to do a quick fix. I tried wiping the font from Font book, reinstalling Varifont, rebooting computer/AE, and even changing the font file name, it still won’t update new spacing. Do you have any tips for this? Spoke with support, they haven’t gotten back to me.
have you tried the adobe fonts folder trick? I can’t remember if I’ve used this for AE specifically Testing your fonts in Adobe apps | Glyphs
and it’s possible the plugin itself has its own cache
font caching problems are a real pain
An additional note to the last comment: Generally don’t use After Effects to “test” your fonts in development. Use FontGoogle, Dinamo Font Gauntlet or similar tools.
