Be able to set to Italic with the Blinker font

GIMP is probably using a “faux” (fake) italic. That’s just when you take a font and apply a skew to the letters. CSS can do this too – you can apply faux bold or faux italic to any font using CSS regardless of whether or not italic is supported in the font. Figma doesn’t offer this. The best you can do is go into “plugins” and use a skew plugin to make a “faux” version yourself.

Adding faux bold and italic would be a great feature for Figma to add. It would make it more useful for people using display and handwritten fonts that do not have italic or bold. It would also make it more feature complete in comparison to its competitors.

In all places, not just here (e.g., github issues, reddit, etc.), people sometimes get annoyed when people complain and criticize, but I personally love it when people complain because it’s great feedback and gives the devs a potential direction to go in.

I arrived on this page cursing the internet for not having a basic tutorial but actually FIGMA ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR DESIGN SOFTWARE ON THE PLANET doesn’t have this extremely basic feature? What the actual heck people? Even your freaking text editor here on your forum has this basic feature!!!

As KennLucas mentioned, and after internal review, we can confirm that this is not a bug but rather a feature that Figma doesn’t currently support. We’ve shared your feedback about faux italics with our Product team, and it has been acknowledged.
 

Regarding Jakob7’s specific issue, here’s the response from the support team for visibility:

We confirm we do not currently support faux font weights, more details on what this is can be found here: https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/faux_fake_pseudo_synthesized 

It seems that the software they referenced may be using faux italics, which is a different approach. At present, Figma does not support faux font weights. You can find more information on this article here: https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/faux_fake_pseudo_synthesized.

For now, we recommend them to keeping an eye on our Release Notes where we post all major updates: Releases  

I’ve also gone ahead to switch this topic as Suggest a Feature, and leave this thread open so others can add their support (you can vote by giving a +1).
Thank you for your understanding!

Please stop embarrassing yourselves and give us italic on all fonts. CSS can do it, so Figma should.