Maxon Autograph 2027 introduces Adobe Fonts support and improvements to Rich Text and Plain Text conversion. Other useful text workflows can help motion designers manage layered typography, reuse animation settings, and refine individual characters.

Here are five Autograph text features worth exploring.

1. Switch Between Rich Text and Plain Text

Autograph 2027 improves how text content is handled when switching between Rich Text and Plain Text modes. You can change modes without retyping your content.

Rich Text supports character-level formatting, while Plain Text applies a consistent style across the text block. When converting Rich Text to Plain Text, Autograph applies the first character’s styling across the block. Converting from Plain Text to Rich Text preserves shared character attributes.

These improvements make it easier to adjust text formatting without rebuilding the content.

For details, see the official Autograph 2027 release notes.

2. Use Adobe Fonts in Autograph

Autograph 2027 adds Adobe Fonts support to its Text Panel. Fonts installed through the Adobe Creative Cloud desktop application can be accessed and applied directly in Autograph.

This is useful for motion designers working with brand guidelines, title sequences, and other projects that require consistent typography. It also helps keep font selection within an existing creative workflow.

3. Keep Layered Text in Sync with Paste Shared

Layered typography often combines multiple text objects to create a single visual treatment. One layer might provide the main lettering, while others add shadows, shading, or dimensional effects.

Autograph’s Paste Shared workflow lets multiple text objects share the same text content. When you update the shared text, the changes can carry across linked objects without requiring you to edit each layer individually.

This is particularly useful for complex titles where the wording needs to stay consistent while each layer retains its own visual treatment.

4. Share Text Animators Across Layers

When multiple text layers use the same animation, recreating and maintaining identical settings can add unnecessary work.

Autograph lets you share text animators across layers, helping keep their animation behavior consistent. When the shared animation setup needs to change, you can update it rather than repeat the same adjustments across separate layers.

This workflow is useful for layered titles and text treatments that need coordinated animation.

5. Explore OpenType Features and Alternate Glyphs

Autograph supports OpenType features that provide additional typographic options in compatible fonts, including alternate glyphs. These are alternative visual designs for certain characters.

Alternate glyphs can help refine logos, headlines, title cards, and expressive typography without requiring you to create custom lettering from scratch. The available options depend on the font being used.

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From changing text modes to coordinating layered typography, these workflows give motion designers more flexibility when creating and maintaining text-based compositions.

Autograph is available free for individuals and teams, including commercial use. To explore other creative tools in the Maxon ecosystem, visit Motion Media’s Maxon software catalog.

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