Thank you! @dvaliao

Hi there. Another reason to include Grammarly is that Grammarly Business has company style guides. So a design team could implement a custom style guide that would not only spellcheck but also adhere to the specific style guides for that product. This would be incredible! Errors would be corrected from the beginning and would be far less likely to migrate all the way to production with this feature.

Alternatively, Figma could develop a proprietary customizable style guide and spellcheck feature. As Figma is our source of truth for both design and writing, it deserves to be considered a writing app, with the tech that all writing apps need.

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They are terrible. One is paid after a shot time and in other you need to select specific text field to check.

If you want a Grammarly plugin, go ahead and send a feature request directly to Grammarly. Maybe that helps ❤️

https://support.grammarly.com/hc/en-us/requests/new#/

I’m sorry, but publicly highlighting, and leaning on a good-effort-but-half-baked spell checking community plugin, for which there is a 7-day free trial before you need to pay to cover API access costs, is completely bonkers.

Figma needs a competent built-in spell checker. (Huge props to the developer of SPELLL, really. But this shouldn’t have needed to be made in the first place.)

I’m sure if anyone replies to this, they’ll suggest “write your content outside of Figma.” Cool, if only every situation could be that ideal. The reality is that people write in Figma.

I’m also sure that someone will take this as an attack on the community and efforts to fill this spell checking gap. It’s not. I have a crazy number of plugins installed that I absolutely adore. The community is easily a Top 3 aspect of Figma.

But, basic spell checking should be table stakes for any product shipping with a text input field. End of story. It’s intrinsic for pretty much any 1st or 3rd-party application on macOS and iOS, seems good-enough (at least exists) in most janky Windows applications, and so forth.

It’s frankly indefensible at this point that Figma does not have any form of spell checking capability. At the very least when utilizing the desktop applications.

Is any work being done here? Are we forever doomed to using good-enough and pay-for-it spell checking – a feature that has existed in decent form since the damn Bronze Age in our computing environments?

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   When i right click on the title on the Windows desktop app to correct spelling I don’t get spelling suggestions

   
   


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A whole year is about to go by since this forum request was started, and this was a feature needed at launch. What’s really bad is plugins show that it isn’t a difficult feature to implement, and Grammarly can literally help make it for them. Personally, our UX writers will use other tools for proper grammar so the importance isn’t the writers needing it, but what it does come down to is this, I leave my team notes and I present mockups to clients. If I don’t see a red line telling me it’s spelled wrong, I won’t see it but other people will. It’s literally an accessibility aid for people like me with dyslexia, and we all want to showcase the best work we can and we don’t need hangups on spelling. I used Grammarly spellcheck 10x in this paragraph alone. When will Figma implement this feature, or who do we need to give a push to get this done? Let’s keep this thread alive and well until then.

I also feel like this should be standard. The few plug ins available aren’t as robust as I’d like them to be. Pay after a trial, selecting only 1 text layer, etc. isn’t very effective

I’m disappointed that the “32 Little Big Updates” does not include a native spellcheck. I’m sure it’s not a small feature to include, but this is also not a new request as we are going on 2 years since this thread was started. As a UX Writer working at an agency, a native spellcheck would be extraordinarily valuable to have, especially as we try to help our designers become better at writing initial copy.

Is this something that’s at least being worked on or even considered? If not, why not?

Please!! I’ve been waiting forever for this!! ):

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• Issue of not spelling words correctly - have the option to have spell check running

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   (e.g. Does anyone else experience this? Is anyone using a plugin or workaround to help solve this?, etc.

Does anyone know if this is an issue?

Please add this feature, at least spelling should be checked.

@anon21722796 Please provide a date when spellcheck will be in Figma.

If spellcheck is not on your roadmap please explain why.

Please, for the love of god, I need an automatic spell checker.

In 2022 it feels a little archaic that Figma doesn’t have a build in, automatic spell check. As a member of the neurodiverse community with both Dyslexia and ADHD this leaves us unassisted. As the field of UX grows and encompasses peripheral fields like UX copy it is irrefutable that copy quality issue is a function of UX and there for, product design,

If you’re dyslexic or don’t have English as your first language, when you create a product like FigJam which is intended for writing in front of groups of people, you are setting users of your product up for making mistakes in front of groups.

How can you not support a spell check? It’s basic and fundamental to a lot of your users workflow.

Preach. Figma is awesome but… just come on

I live a life of typos. Please help me out here Figma.

The plugins really help for the artboards, but I need the native mac spell check to work on COMMENTS, it seems straight up SILLY its not enabled.

Would love to have the spellcheck active in outline mode, à la InDesign! I don’t really want to have the red lines all over my design - I suppose they could only be active when the text tool is selected but there was always something great about just toggling a whole mode to focus on content and outlines etc

One of the main reasons I never switched/ used Figma! I don’t speak English natively but work on English-based designs. It looks extremely unprofessional to present designs with spelling mistakes! sorry but the SPELL and other plugins are useless on large-scale projects.

Our team is building out plans on Figma for an app, but we also do so much our our content collaboration for websites etc. here."

Often times, we end up writing or editing copy right on Figma (ease of workflow) and the fact that it doesn’t catch simple spelling/grammar slip ups is a bit of a bummer! Means we have to do really redundant proofreading to catch any misses. Sometimes you’re too close to the work to see your own mistakes!

Having a spell / grammar check and native flagging of misspellings (red underlines etc.) integrated would be the most lovely 🙂

Sketch didn’t have this from day 13 either to be fair. Also they didn’t have character styles.

I am still bewildered for a tool of this calibre to not have this basic capability. It is even worse that there is a simple solution you could just allow your text fields to be available for native and ‘system integrated’ grammar and spell checker apps. I have changed several errors ON YOUR OWN FORUM using said apps but not able to do the same on software we pay for

I would love a native spell check feature. I’ve used plugins to varying degrees of success, but prefer a native, repeatable experience across a broad team of users.

@Cheryl_Boyce_Hunt 's idea about customizing and flagging words to meet brand guidelines is an amazing feature that would continue separate Figma from the competition.