Text Anarchy - 2.3

Whether you're adding visual background noise, using text as a texture, or flashing up words to reinforce some other idea in the piece, text is an important element of your composition. Text is traditionally one of the more difficult tasks to animate in most applications. We aim to simplify that with these eight tools.

The eight filters provide a range of ways to animate text in motion, creating a very versatile filter set. Each filter has its own method for producing a wide variety of effects.

Some of the filters use particle systems specifically designed for text. Others allow the animation of characters on a letter by letter basis. And still others use paths to control the look and attributes of the text.

The filters can use almost any TrueType or Postscript Type 1 font, including dingbats. They're versatile as well as easy to use.