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Matty_Vazquez
Active Member
May 12, 2023 9:45 PM UTC

Add a Highlighter for Text to the Type Settings

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
Nov 20, 2023 10:40 PM UTC

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

Dec 1, 2023 10:08 AM UTC

Let’s do it

Tereza1
Dec 4, 2023 11:01 PM UTC

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

Dec 9, 2023 12:27 AM UTC

I agree! Why is this not a feature smh

Dec 13, 2023 2:22 PM UTC

Yes! Please add this highlighting feature!

Dec 25, 2023 10:21 PM UTC

Yes please, this would be great!

Jacob_Rosmarin
Dec 27, 2023 7:19 AM UTC

ditto this

Wayne3
Jan 16, 2024 3:48 PM UTC

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

Rehman_Ahmed
Jan 26, 2024 10:50 AM UTC

Yes! Please add this feature.

Feb 6, 2024 12:06 AM UTC

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.