How to set a title card in two languages at different sizes
Give Vizard Agent both languages, the typeface for each and the size each line should be. It finds a face that can actually render your script before designing anything, sets the two lines at the sizes you gave rather than scaling one to match the other, and checks the strokes still read on a black card at full size.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Write it as a spec. This is one of the few requests where a list of numbers is easier than a sentence, because every item is a value somebody has to choose and you already know what you want. "The Korean clearly larger" is a direction, while two point sizes give Vizard Agent a specification that comes back right the first time.
Prompt
What does Vizard Agent actually do?
A bilingual card is two typographic decisions, not one. The scripts have different natural weights and comfortable sizes, so setting them at the same point size makes one look wrong. The font search comes first, because a face with no glyphs for your script fails silently, with boxes or a substituted face. In the session behind this article it:
- Checked which typefaces on the system could render the script at all, for a bilingual trailer whose cards had to look like cinema typography rather than slides.
- Looked for a face with the right character for the language, then located the capable font file and confirmed it covered the text.
- Designed the cards with each language at its own size, so the card was designed rather than scaled and the leading could open up.
- Checked each card as a rendered image on its own, not at whatever size the timeline preview happened to be.
- Built the full set of cards and the end title, rendered the file, and checked the cards and the ending at full size.
When does this not work well?
Some combinations resist. A very thin face at a large size on black loses its strokes to the display, and a script with tall ascenders under one with deep descenders may need more leading than the card has room for. Long names can turn two lines into three, and a font on your machine is not necessarily a font you may ship.
Common questions
Can it find a font for my script? Yes. Vizard Agent checks what can actually render it first.
Will it scale one to match the other? No, not if you give both sizes to Vizard Agent.
What if the strokes look weak? Vizard Agent reinforces them evenly rather than switching to bold.