FontReplacer for After Effects

FontReplacer V1.1 for After Effects

The Ultimate Batch Font Replacement Tool for After Effects

Download FontReplacer V1.1 today. Consequently, you can instantly replace fonts across your entire After Effects project, updating every text layer, essential graphic, and composition in one seamless operation. Because motion designers and video editors frequently need to swap typefaces when adapting templates, applying brand guidelines, or accommodating client feedback, having access to an efficient batch font replacement tool is absolutely essential. Nevertheless, manually updating fonts layer by layer in After Effects is one of the most tedious and error-prone tasks in post-production, often consuming hours on projects with dozens of compositions. Fortunately, FontReplacer eliminates this bottleneck completely. Moreover, it intelligently locates every instance of a specified font and replaces it globally, including inside precompositions and nested comps, without missing a single text layer. In short, you can rebrand an entire project in seconds rather than hours.

Comprehensive Batch Font Replacement Engine

The core of this script lies in its thorough, project-wide search and replace capability. For instance, FontReplacer scans every composition in your project, identifying all text layers that use a particular font family, style, or weight. Furthermore, it replaces those fonts with your chosen alternative across the entire project in a single action, ensuring complete consistency. Since the script also handles missing fonts, you can resolve those frustrating “missing font” warnings that appear when opening projects created on other systems. Consequently, your projects will always maintain their intended typographic appearance.

Intelligent Handling of Compositions and Nested Layers

Professional projects often involve complex structures with precomps, essential graphics, and nested compositions. Therefore, FontReplacer is designed to navigate these hierarchies intelligently. For example, the script penetrates multiple levels of nested compositions, ensuring that no text layer is overlooked regardless of how deeply it is buried. Additionally, it respects text layers driven by Essential Graphics controls and master properties, updating them correctly. Since the tool preserves all existing formatting, including size, color, tracking, and leading, your layouts remain intact after the font swap. Thus, you can confidently update even the most intricate projects.

Missing Font Resolution and Font Mapping

One of the most frustrating issues in After Effects is the dreaded missing font warning, particularly when collaborating across different workstations. Therefore, FontReplacer includes robust missing font resolution features. For instance, you can create font mapping rules that automatically substitute missing fonts with your preferred alternatives. Furthermore, the script provides a clear report of all fonts used in the project, helping you audit your typography and identify potential issues before they cause problems. Since you can save and reuse font mapping presets, your standard substitutions are always just one click away.

Perfect for Motion Designers, Template Creators, and Studios

This script is particularly well-suited for motion designers working with template packs, where fonts frequently need to be swapped for client branding. Similarly, template creators who sell on marketplaces will appreciate the ability to quickly adapt projects for different buyers. Additionally, studios and production teams can standardize font replacements across their entire pipeline, ensuring brand consistency and reducing onboarding time. Ultimately, FontReplacer V1.1 accelerates your entire motion design and post-production pipeline.

System Requirements and Compatibility

FontReplacer V1.1 supports After Effects versions 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026 on both Windows and macOS operating systems. The script works with any font installed on your system and is compatible with Essential Graphics templates. You will need a standard workstation with at least 8GB of RAM.

Installation and Usage Guide

To install, first download the script files from your library. Next, close Adobe After Effects if it is running. Then, copy the script files to your After Effects Scripts folder. After installation, ensure “Allow Scripts to Write Files and Access Network” is enabled in After Effects Preferences under Edit > Scripting & Expressions. Finally, launch After Effects, navigate to Window > FontReplacer, select the font you wish to replace and your desired replacement, and click Apply to update your entire project instantly. Thus, your professional font replacement workflow will be ready instantly.

What is Included Inside?

The pack contains the complete FontReplacer V1.1 script for After Effects. Furthermore, it includes the batch font replacement engine, nested composition handling, missing font resolution, font mapping presets, and comprehensive font usage reporting. Ultimately, you receive everything needed for professional project-wide font management.

Final Thoughts on the Script

Effortless batch font replacement evokes profound creative freedom. Therefore, this script provides the ultimate foundation for your typography and template workflows. You can update entire projects with unprecedented speed and consistency. Consequently, your font management vision becomes a stunning reality.

Replace fonts across your whole After Effects project: mixed-font layers, keyframed text, and expressions.

After Effects · Font Replacement

FontReplacer

Replace every font across your whole project — detect, get, fix & collect.

Windows & macOS · After Effects 2022+

How it works

Three steps. Fully automatic.

01

Pick the source font

The font you want to replace — project-wide or just the active comp. Pick one or many.

02

Choose the target

Filter by Suggest or Recent, pick family & style, and preview the change live before you commit.

03

Replace

Apply across every comp in a single undo step — and every change is logged in Replacements.

Everything it does

More than a font swapper.

Get

Install a missing font without ever leaving After Effects.

Expression & Fix

Swap font names inside Source-Text expressions — and repair a misspelled name in one click.

Animated text

Works on animated text too — Source-Text keyframes and text changes over time.

Collect

Gather every used font into one folder — plus a CSV usage & replacement report.

Used in…

Jump to every comp, layer & expression a font lives in.

Smart suggest

Closest matches by name and real visual metrics.

Mixed-font

Per-character runs handled, not just the primary font.

Keep weight

Bold stays bold, Light stays Light — mapped automatically on every swap.

Templates

Save font rules and reuse them across projects.

Feature · Get

Missing font? Get it.

Search across Adobe Fonts, Google Fonts, Fontsource & Fontshare — all free — and install straight from the panel, or browse your own folder.

• Adobe, Google Fonts, Fontsource & Fontshare — all free
• Install in one click, right inside After Effects
• Or browse a folder for your own licensed files

Feature · Expressions

Expressions & typos.

Replace font names inside Source-Text expressions — and when a name is misspelled, the Fix pill repairs it to the real font in one click.

• Rewrites font names inside expressions
• Detects typos and repairs them per row

Feature · Collect

Collect every used font.

Copy all fonts used in the project into one folder — plus a CSV report of which fonts are used where, and the full replacement history.

• One folder with every used font file
• CSV table: which fonts are used in which comps & layers
• Full replacement history, ready for handoff & archive

Feature · Templates

Map once. Reuse everywhere.

Save your font-mapping rules as a named template — then apply the whole set to any project in one click.

• Stack many source → target rules
• Reusable across every project