The Metric Text Widget is a Text Widget designed to standardize font rendering and support a variety of languages.
To learn how to add a Widget to your Composition, click here.
Remember, any underlined widget properties can be connected to a Control Node or a Data Node.
Properties
As seen above, select the "Metric Text" tab in the Property Panel to update this widget's following property types: Text, Style, Layout and Shadow.
Text - Area for inputting your text.
Font - Choose your font or scroll down in the dropdown to navigate to the Font Browser. Select your fontweight, Italicize and Language.
Transform - Select font capitalization options such as None, Uppercase, Lowercase, Capitalize and Small Caps.
Color - Select your font color.
Alignment - Align your text: Left, Center, Right, Align Dot (.), Align Comma (,), Align Dash (-), Align Colon (;)
Overflow- Text overflow option for the bounding box: Visible, Clip, Fit Scale, Fit Width
Letter Spacing - Spacing adjustment (in %) between each letter.
Word Spacing - Spacing adjustment (in %) between each word.
Emit Events - Activate to send properties to the Script Editor.
Direction (Degrees) - Shadow direction/angle
Distance (Pixels) - Shadow distance
Blur (Pixels) - Shadow blur
Color - Color selector for shadow color
Left (%) - Text padding on the left side
Right (%) - Text padding on the right side
Top (%) - Text padding on the top
Bottom (%) - Text padding on the bottom
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