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Jan 31, 2021 12:31 PM UTC

Launched: Add support for RTL languages

Hello!
I wanted to report a problem with the text component
The component works great in all languages, but I noticed that in the Hebrew language (and probably also in Arabic) the order of the letters is reversed
This is a well-known problem in Hebrew because it needs RTL support

.redro esrever ni nettirw si txet elohw eht taht si ti gnitartsurf woh kniht tsuJ

(Just think how frustrating it is that the whole text is written in reverse.)

Another important thing to note is that we (speakers of RTL languages) are very aware of this problem, but designers who do not speak these languages ​​often encounter this problem without noticing. For example, even in the familiar game - Brawl Stars (They corrected this after the post was published) and many others have problems with the Hebrew text displayed in the screenshots of the game in Google play

For the developers of Figma- I found great documentation for the implementation of RTL in SVG: Creating SVG Tiny Pages in Arabic, Hebrew and other Right-to-left scripts

I really like to design in Figma but it’s just awful to design with Hebrew text so please add RTL support

84 replies

Aviv_Zommer
May 11, 2021 4:16 PM UTC

Yes please add support for rtl!

Dan_Dushinsky
Jun 17, 2021 7:05 AM UTC

Please Figam !!
Add RTL supprt.

Really strange that I so no reply from Figma team …
It seams that we are being ignored from some reason
😦

LOAD
Jun 22, 2021 5:04 AM UTC

Please Figam !!
Add RTL supprt.

Mohammad_Amin_Zamani
Jun 23, 2021 4:26 AM UTC

Please add rtl support… some times small works solve big problems… its only important figma weakness that everyone knows

DP-SD
Jun 30, 2021 9:30 AM UTC

Dear Figma team, be different from Adobe XD – provide proper support. We moved to Figma because Adobe XD team ignores the community. Be those who help the community. Solve problems.

Abdullah
Jul 15, 2021 8:20 AM UTC

YES Please!
We need native Arabic support in Figma.

Available Arabic plugins are not good enough!

Hussam_Gharawi
Jul 15, 2021 9:34 AM UTC

The time couldn’t be more suitable now to support RTL languages

I WILL move to Figma once it’s done!

abdurrahman_RAJAB
Jul 15, 2021 10:13 AM UTC

I really can not understand how figma does not support the RTL even though there is a large community who uses it!

if only thought about (Arabic, Persian, Urdu , Hebrew): we can get a market place for more than 420 + 220 + 100 + 110 = 830 Millions speakers around the world! That’s a target that all of the designers at those languages would like to reach!

Nashmi_Alharbi
Jul 15, 2021 10:37 AM UTC

Agreeeeee, I can’t imagine how great the app would be and will make design easily in Arabic for instance

Khalid_Alharthi
Jul 15, 2021 1:02 PM UTC

The one feature that makes me want to choose a competitor is RTL support.

Dear Figma Team,

Please do consider this investment