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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:

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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:

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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.

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.

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

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?

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 😅

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?

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