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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

ramin_jafari
Oct 28, 2021 8:41 AM UTC

Hi
Please start supporting RTL languages
Thank you for your cooperation

@anon21722796

Mortyakard
New Participant
Nov 3, 2021 12:21 PM UTC

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
Nov 3, 2021 3:03 PM UTC

@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.

Nov 4, 2021 9:35 PM UTC

It just doesn’t support it.

Adel_Ali
Nov 10, 2021 12:58 PM UTC

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
Nov 11, 2021 1:27 AM UTC

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

Thamer
New Member
Nov 11, 2021 8:37 AM UTC

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
Nov 20, 2021 1:31 PM UTC

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
Nov 22, 2021 10:44 AM UTC

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

Tal_Drori
Nov 25, 2021 1:45 PM UTC

Hi Figma

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