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How to align text to baseline in Adobe After Effects
I got a question recently about how you can align multiple single-word layers of text to the baseline in After Effects and I wanted to share my answer in this article, so this is how I would do it:
I created a composition with three text layers and placed the first layer on a line. Now, I could simply hold down “Shift”, select all text layers, go to the “Align” window and click “Align Bottom” and that would work for uppercase letters.
If you have lowercase letters, it aligns the text to the bottom of the layer instead of the baseline of the text.
However, you can solve this very easily if you go to the “Character” window, click the “All caps”-icon, go back to the “Align” window, click “Align Bottom”, then go back to the “Character” window again and deselect “All caps” and there you go, aligned to the baseline!
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