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January 31, 2021

Launched: Add support for RTL languages

  • January 31, 2021
  • 84 replies
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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

ramin_jafari
October 28, 2021

Hi
Please start supporting RTL languages
Thank you for your cooperation

@anon21722796

Mortyakard
New Participant
November 3, 2021

Please fix the Right-to-left writing problem.
Figma and its features are not suitable for right-to-left languages, and we have to use plugins to solve these problems, which is annoying.

Mortyakard
New Participant
November 3, 2021

@tank666
Hi
I think after all this time, the Figma team is well aware of the problem of not supporting right-to-left languages
Figma and its features are not suitable for right-to-left languages, and we have to use plugins to solve these problems, which is annoying.

November 4, 2021

It just doesn’t support it.

Adel_Ali
November 10, 2021

there is a lot of designers who need to switch totally to figma but not supporting rtl language and Arabic specifically limits this chances , plz put this on track asap.

Sallory
November 11, 2021

Yes please! add support for RTL, I HATE Adobe XD 😢

Thamer
New Member
November 11, 2021

Hello, I love designing in Figma and not just for UI design.
I also use it for general graphic design because of how quick and fun it is to use. I do a lot of Arabic text in my designs so official built-in RTL support would be amazing 💜

Rayan_Aldafas
November 20, 2021

This is a must! I don’t understand how I’m still relying on plugins to write text.

Please Figma team this should be a priority!

I’ll just move my life into Figma once I can write Arabic without all the hassle.

Let’s be real, Figma is the real Metaverse. I just wanna speak my language in the Metaverse.

ekramy
November 22, 2021

Why Figma does not support right to left languages like Arabic?

Tal_Drori
November 25, 2021

Hi Figma

It is almost 2022, and there is no support.
It means that you are either a racist company, or a lazy one.