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Point
New Member
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

cdes
Jul 15, 2021 9:48 PM UTC

Dear Figma team,
I’ve been trying to tell you this since forever. I’ve contacted multiple key people from your team but got no response.

Please, make this happen.
I will help. Free of charge.

Zahra_Maher
Jul 16, 2021 2:07 AM UTC

Yes Please, we need RTL feature

saeed_sajadi
Jul 21, 2021 9:54 AM UTC

Please be sure to add RTL capability. Thanks

Aziz1
Jul 23, 2021 4:14 AM UTC

we need RTL feature

younes
Jul 23, 2021 2:02 PM UTC

I once again stuck with adobe products. They put effort to support RTL, unlike Affinity and XARA also.
I’ll have to stay with adobe again and I HATE it.

Shayan_Moradi
Jul 27, 2021 11:41 PM UTC

Really?! It shouldn’t be that hard for Figma Team to add RTL Support!
Just a simple condition inside their source to reverse the typing.
It’s hard to run a plugin every time we type Arabic or Persian.

kleja
New Participant
Jul 28, 2021 8:17 AM UTC

RTL support is a must, we struggle everyday launching plugins to workaround this issue.

I don’t understand why they’ don’t cooperating with those programs fixed this issue.

Please, many teams hate using Figma because of RTL poor support.

Make this happen.

Matt12
Jul 30, 2021 4:47 AM UTC

Looking for RTL support!
The plugins dont work for special characters or vowels in arabic due to the way plugins try to ‘reverse’…

As with others, I’m back to photoshop for some projects until support is implemented!

Please update soon!

Ariel_Elboim
Aug 4, 2021 10:47 AM UTC

Any update?

Amo
Aug 7, 2021 9:51 AM UTC

I fell in love with @figma but unfortunately there is no support for #Arabic language as I have many clients from the GCC countries such as UAE and Saudi Arabia .