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… if I remember correctly, in LiveType, there were some 'animated' fonts, dancing, shivering, looking like badly drawn, hand-made animation.
For some 'Kid's Movie' I now need exactly such an effect:
Titles/a few words, looking like hand-drawn, and 'moving', simple 3-5 frames loops.
To make it clear: no 'writing' effect!
The title/word is already on screen, but each letter looks a lil' imperfect.
There're hundreds of nice, childish hand-written fonts avail (dafont.com etc), … I need'em quivering!
… any idea, how to accomplish such an effect in Motion5?

The answer is right under your "face" (almost quite literally).
For any font:
For either the Face (and/or Outline), at the bottom of Text > Style > Face (or Outline) is "Four Corner" (hidden within a disclosure.) 
Dial down the disclosure triangle and add wriggle, randomize, oscillate, or whatever your favorite behavior is to one or all of the four corners.  For instance, adding an Oscillate behavior to Bottom Left, Amplitude just < 10: Speed at around 100 or so will make the text do the "hokey pokey" (one side at least.)
[PS - if you let Four Corners to into extremes, the text disappears -- it will just "warp out of view" -- so keep the controls "balance" and within a fairly small framework.]
You can also include Text > Format > Advanced Formatting > Slant into the mix.
You can also try to keyframe those corners (but I would recommend building onscreen controls first and that discussion is way beyond the space I have here... but not as hard as that may sound!)

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