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Add a Highlighter for Text to the Type Settings

  • May 12, 2023
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Krystian_Kubicki_Shiji

Thanks. Check out the file I shared earlier:
Easy Way to Highlight text in figma

We can achieve solid colors by setting the underline fill to 1%, and then applying a hard shadow with 100% color fill to the highlighted text.

This way, we get a highlight underneath, and the shadow is placed under the text.


damien.huguet.external

Please implement this feature, this is such a common use case we have to handle...


Matty_Vazquez
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  • March 24, 2025

Hey All, thanks for the feedback and apologies for the lack of acknowledgement here!

We’ll pass this onto our typography team for future consideration.

Any progress on adding this into the Figma system?


Nicole Wilcox

I too would like to see this feature! If I can highlight text in this forum, I’d like to highlight text in Figma please 😅


Matty_Vazquez
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  • August 19, 2025

Well, it’s been another 4 months. I wish the Figma team would let us know if there are any plans to add this feature. 

 

@djv - has there been any movement on this?


Zlata
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  • December 14, 2025

Please implement this feature. I’ve been checking this thread for over a year, hoping that one day it will happen. People really need this! ​@djv 


Harry_Higgins
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  • December 15, 2025

+1000000 to this. I’m working on a text comparison feature and this would be massive help.


Matty_Vazquez
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  • February 3, 2026

Well, it’s been another 4 months. I wish the Figma team would let us know if there are any plans to add this feature. 

 

@djv - has there been any movement on this?

Same here! lol. It’s annoying that this is so overlooked. Come on Figma!