by AE Screens·Motion Graphics
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AE Screens Type earns its spot in the toolfarm library by consolidating a broad set of text jobs—type-on animation, highlighting, number rigs, monospacing, boxes, and splitting—into one After Effects toolset, with compatibility reaching back to After Effects 2020.
AE Screens Type is a toolset for working with text layers in After Effects. It animates text being typed out by character, word, or line, can make text flow up or from the middle, and adds a customizable blinking cursor that automatically tracks with the text. Highlighting, underlining, and strikethrough tools work on target layers or a specific range, and holding shift animates them automatically.
Beyond typing effects, Type builds a smart rectangle around text that adapts as the type changes, or a perfectly sized track matte, with either shape fully customizable. A number rig formats numbers to any locale, adds symbols, and abbreviates big numbers, while an automatic time counter precisely tracks the time of the layer itself. Text motion blur is also included.
Type can make any text monospaced regardless of font, with spacing control and variable spacers to target specific ranges, based on a technique by Thor Sarup. It also cuts text layers by word, line, or character into 100% editable layers that retain pixel-perfect positioning and effects, with advanced parenting preferences for more control. A full tutorial and complete guide are available.
AE Screens Type is best for after Effects artists animating and formatting text layers, from type-on effects and number rigs to monospacing and text splitting.
AE Screens Type is completely free to download and use.
AE Screens Type is compatible with After Effects 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, and 2020. Those same versions are listed as its requirements, so any release from 2020 onward should be able to run the toolset. It was last updated on January 30, 2025. For versions outside that range, or for the latest download and licensing details, check the developer's page directly.
AE Screens Type is listed as free in this catalog. Because licensing terms can change over time, the developer's page is the best place to confirm current pricing, licensing, and download options before you rely on it in a project. This entry focuses on what the toolset does rather than commercial terms, so treat the free listing here as a starting point and verify the details with AE Screens.
AE Screens Type can make any text monospaced regardless of the font in use. You control the spacing and add variable spacers to target and customize a specific range of your text rather than the whole layer. The monospacing is based on a technique by Thor Sarup. It sits alongside the rest of Type's text tools in the same toolset, so fixed-width spacing is handled directly within the plugin.
AE Screens Type can cut up any text layer by word, line, or character. The resulting layers stay 100% editable text and retain pixel-perfect positioning and effects, so splitting doesn't flatten your work into static graphics. Advanced parenting preferences are available for more control over how the pieces relate to one another, letting you break a single text layer into components while keeping each one live and editable.
AE Screens Type adds a customizable blinking cursor that automatically tracks with your text as it changes. The cursor is part of the toolset's typing tools, which animate text being typed out by character, word, or line and can make text flow up or from the middle. Because the cursor is customizable, you can adjust it to suit the text you're animating.
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