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Matty_Vazquez
Active Member
May 12, 2023

Add a Highlighter for Text to the Type Settings

  • May 12, 2023
  • 58 replies
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Allow us to change the background color of text (not just the text fill color) to give a highlighter effect that stays with the words that the effect is applied to even when the size/shape of the text box is changed.

For example:


The above shows two examples of the same ipsum (left and right) where specific words are highlighted. When the size of the text box (the left example) is changed to accommodate a responsive layout (the right example), the highlighting stays with the selected words.

The way to add highlighting for the above examples could be included in the type settings pop-over:

Note: the idea here is that the user can apply this to specific sets of selected characters within a text box or to the entire text box, just like how all of the other type settings already behave.

58 replies

Petr_Siroky
New Participant
November 20, 2023

It’s frustrating that Figma has so many extensive typographical options, yet this one is missing. Hopefully it will be added sooner than later.

December 1, 2023

Let’s do it

Tereza1
December 4, 2023

Por favor! It would help a lot in many situations 🙏

December 9, 2023

I agree! Why is this not a feature smh

December 13, 2023

Yes! Please add this highlighting feature!

December 25, 2023

Yes please, this would be great!

Jacob_Rosmarin
December 27, 2023

ditto this

Wayne3
January 16, 2024

About time this happened, as allot of people have been asking for this for over a year.

Rehman_Ahmed
January 26, 2024

Yes! Please add this feature.

February 6, 2024

Yes please add. I can do it in HTML, I can do it in PPT, I can do it in google slides and word, please let me do it in Figma.