TextRender doesn't load font correctly.

“Plug the top pin from your Font node into the Alpha of the Lerp node.” ← this gives me an error saying “Coercion failed”

I can put in any of the individual channels (RGB) but not the top pin into the alpha of the lerp node. help me please?
EDIT: I think you meant the bottom pin- the alpha of the font to the alpha of the lerp? but my letters are getting chopped up…

for anyone having the same problem: the reason the top pin can’t go through the lerp into the mask is that the mask wants a float and the top pin is a float3. So i added the red to the green and the result of that to the blue and just used that as the mask.