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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

SaeedKhader
December 27, 2021

Please add support for RTL languages.

ibrahim_abdullah
January 3, 2022

Figma is one of the best design programs, but its only major drawback is the lack of support for the Arabic language and the direction of texts without the need to use plugins,

Eliav2
January 20, 2022

Such a mature design product with no RTL support? WTF? this is shocking.

the most annoying thing is that I could not find any official response to this topic(RTL support) from Figma.

well, going back to Adobe XD for now.

Bar_Levi
January 20, 2022

#supportRTL

ibrahim_azzoug
New Member
January 25, 2022

I like to design in Figma but I am an Arabic UI/UX designer and I need to design in Arabic, but Figma doesn’t support it

it’s a real pain point for a big part of the population who speak the RTL languages, I love Figma! With proper RTL support, it would be the best Platform I ever used

Please make me happy with other millions of users! and add support for RTL languages to Figma, and if anyone



Galita
March 13, 2022

Is there any chance to see RTL support on Beta?

Sorosh_Azizi
March 22, 2022

In Arabic and most west Asia countries, text align is left to right, Figma already have both align but when i want use of justify paragraph, i just can use of left to right text and justify is useless for Arabic and other right to left languages!
I think the solution is just a select box to add left, right or center justify for the last line of a justified paragraph!

Tony_Vito
March 23, 2022

add rtl its extremley painful to type in arabic here with plugins

Josh
Former Community Manager
March 29, 2022

Hey everyone,

Thank you all for your feedback and patience here. We want to continue supporting our global community and are excited to share that Figma and FigJam now support all right-to-left (RTL) text, including Arabic, Hebrew, and Urdu. Visit our Help Center to learn more.

You can also read more about this and our other efforts in making Figma a more global company in our blog post here.

Sebastian_Hall
March 29, 2022

That is amazing news! thank you so much for listening to the community and getting this done. This will make my (and I’m sure many others) work and projects a lot easier!