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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

Krystian_Kubicki_Shiji
New Participant
December 2, 2024

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
New Member
January 15, 2025

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

Matty_Vazquez
Active Member
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
New Member
May 15, 2025

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
Active Member
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
New Member
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
New Member
December 15, 2025

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

Matty_Vazquez
Active Member
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!