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January 31, 2021

Launched: Add support for RTL languages

  • January 31, 2021
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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

Abdelrahman_Gemei
November 27, 2021

Copied from Figma’s core values: “Our vision is to make design accessible to everyone”.

Yet designing in Arabic, Hebrew and more RTL languages is completely inaccessible — these are languages with over 430M speakers in the world.

Please make this a priority.

Mushon
New Member
December 22, 2021

Figma Support would you please acknowledge this thread for a second? At least say you saw this is the most upvoted request but you decided it is not important enough for you. But don’t leave us talking to ourselves… It is not enough you’ve been ignoring us in the product, now you’re not even acknowledging us in the forum… Is that really your standard for building an inclusive community?

noa.vichansky
New Member
December 22, 2021

@figma Support, I know the Middle East has this stigma of people armed to the teeth that ride on camels and fight each other, but besides that we also have a wee bit of high tech as well.
Arabic Speakers are 350M (+270M as a second language), Farsi speakers are 110M, Urdu speakers are 69M, Sindhi speakers are 32M. Hebrew speakers are 10M.

All together, I’d say it is quite a large audience. This issue is going on for years.
Solve it up!

adam_asseraf
New Participant
December 22, 2021

We just haven’t been loud enough

Lior_Cohen
December 23, 2021

We are still using Sketch for this reason only. It supports RTL.
(available only for Macs which is a pain point by itself).

PLEASE prioritize this one. The entire Middle Eastern market is waiting for this.

shelly_elbaz
December 23, 2021

Please add RTL support! It’s will make my life so easy!

Dan_Katsman
December 23, 2021

We all need RTL support, come on just add it ! it will help us SO MUCH

Omri_Landman
December 23, 2021

You are 100% correct

Shai_Shapira
December 24, 2021

Crazy… Must be solved

sagi1
December 24, 2021

You guys have NO legitimate reason for not adding RTL support so far. It’s been years that the RTL community by the tens of millions is suffering every day if they want to use Figma. Answer the people!!! Push this to immediate up most importance! Do not neglect us! It takes years to build a brand but a very short time to kill a brand with wrong business decisions.