by AE Screens·Motion Graphics
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Type earns its place in the aescripts library by bundling a wide spread of text-animation functions—cursors, counters, highlights, monospacing, and typing tags—into a single After Effects toolset.
Type is a toolset for animating text layers inside After Effects. It covers a range of text-animation tasks: highlighting and underlining text, adding a blinking cursor, formatting numbers, applying monospacing, creating a text box, and splitting text by word.
Its highlight, underline, and strikethrough functions target each iteration of a selection, and the Typewriter and Blinky effects retain character styling. Blinky also supports multi-line text. Number formatting includes optional leading zeros for time counters, and a time counter can be paused with shift + click. Typing tags automatically add markers on every frame the text changes, while a separate function creates shapes from text by generating a shape layer for each necessary frame of animation.
Type runs in After Effects 2020 through 2025 and is listed as free in this catalog. A demo video is available. Version 1.6.1 rolls the tool back to the 1.5.2 codebase while the developer addresses some critical bugs.
Type is best for animating text layers in After Effects—typewriter effects, blinking cursors, number and time counters, highlights, and text-to-shape conversion.
Type is completely free to download and use.
Type supports After Effects 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, and 2020, covering several recent release cycles. If you are on one of those versions, the toolset is designed to run there. For versions outside that range, or to confirm compatibility before installing, check the developer's page. The build listed here is version 1.6.1, updated on September 2, 2025, which is the reference point for what you would be downloading.
Type is listed as free in this catalog. No pricing figures are provided here, so for current licensing terms, download options, and any usage conditions, refer to the developer's page on aescripts. That page is also the best source for the most recent version and update history if you want to confirm exactly what you are downloading before installing it into After Effects.
Type 1.6.1, released on September 2, 2025, rolls the tool back to the version 1.5.2 codebase while the developer works on fixing some critical bugs, so the release reverts to an earlier state rather than adding new functions. The prior 1.6 update had introduced typing tags and a pause feature for the time counter, along with character-styling retention for the Typewriter and Blinky effects. For the current state of those features, check the developer's page.
Type's Typewriter and Blinky effects retain character styling, so formatting applied to characters is preserved through the animation, and Blinky additionally supports multi-line text. These improvements came with the 1.6 update. Since version 1.6.1 rolls the tool back to the 1.5.2 codebase to address critical bugs, check the developer's page to confirm which behaviours are active in the build you download.
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