Hi there,

After checking your link, unfortunately, this is because the Italic one doesn’t exist for Blinker. This is why it can’t appear on Figma.

Why is FIGMA not capable of this when all other software can?

Is FIGMA really not capable of using fonts the way other tools can?

Hmm, this looks odd, if you are able to have it in another software. Please reach out to the support team by filling this form here. Our technical specialist can investigate further the issue that may be causing this on our end. Thank you!

Thanks, I filed a support ticket…

1- Select the text you want to transform

2- Press command (ctrl) + i

Variations:

· command (ctrl) + b

· command (ctrl) + u

Blinker is a Google font and does not include an italic style.

If other tools are showing an italic style, that might not be an actual font style, but an applied effect. Exactly what “other software” are you seeing this in?

But the true Blinker font from Google Fonts does not come with an italic version in the family.

How about searching the font on your hard drive and seeing if you really do have an italic version? I would be curious to know where it came from.

This does not work if there is no italic font in most cases. Funny, I JUST tried it myself with Blinker and that does not work.

PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Inkspace, Gimp, Irfanview, et etc, everything BUT FIGMA.

I can confirm with you that in Microsoft products, you CAN apply the italic styling WITH THE SOFTWARE to the font.

That said, I can “Command+i” or click the “i” icon to make the Blinker font italic.

This is a function of the tool itself.

Figma serves the fonts that are provided in the font family.

So no italic font face, then no option for italic.

I was a little surprised myself that the “Command+i” did not work in Figma.

I think the ticket is the right way to go. But it is not going to get resolved by help desk. I would also submit it as a feature request.

I support your thinking that it is a bug. But not really. It is just something Figma did not build in.

Hope that helped somehow.

This is the expected behavior of every software except font design software perhaps. When I use it in my web-application and apply Italic styling it renders as Italic. FIGMA is a design tool for web-application, hence FIGMA should render it as the browsers do.

This makes this a bug in the FIGMA software, but there is also a bug in the product management, that they intentionally do not render as web-browsers do. There are more examples of that….

I added bug reports and feature requests, but FIGMA people doesn’t understand what this is about.

GIMP is probably using a “faux” (fake) italic. That’s just when you take a font and apply a skew to the letters. CSS can do this too – you can apply faux bold or faux italic to any font using CSS regardless of whether or not italic is supported in the font. Figma doesn’t offer this. The best you can do is go into “plugins” and use a skew plugin to make a “faux” version yourself.

Adding faux bold and italic would be a great feature for Figma to add. It would make it more useful for people using display and handwritten fonts that do not have italic or bold. It would also make it more feature complete in comparison to its competitors.

In all places, not just here (e.g., github issues, reddit, etc.), people sometimes get annoyed when people complain and criticize, but I personally love it when people complain because it’s great feedback and gives the devs a potential direction to go in.

I arrived on this page cursing the internet for not having a basic tutorial but actually FIGMA ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR DESIGN SOFTWARE ON THE PLANET doesn’t have this extremely basic feature? What the actual heck people? Even your freaking text editor here on your forum has this basic feature!!!

As KennLucas mentioned, and after internal review, we can confirm that this is not a bug but rather a feature that Figma doesn’t currently support. We’ve shared your feedback about faux italics with our Product team, and it has been acknowledged.
 

Regarding Jakob7’s specific issue, here’s the response from the support team for visibility:

We confirm we do not currently support faux font weights, more details on what this is can be found here: https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/faux_fake_pseudo_synthesized 

It seems that the software they referenced may be using faux italics, which is a different approach. At present, Figma does not support faux font weights. You can find more information on this article here: https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/faux_fake_pseudo_synthesized.

For now, we recommend them to keeping an eye on our Release Notes where we post all major updates: Releases  

I’ve also gone ahead to switch this topic as Suggest a Feature, and leave this thread open so others can add their support (you can vote by giving a +1).
Thank you for your understanding!