LAUNCHED: Allow modifying "Decoration" to the text styles already defined

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February 9, 2021
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One option that could be useful is to allow modifying the decoration of a text that has already been defined as a text style, because that way you do not have to create two or more text styles to simply add the decoration. As with alignment, it could be added below. thanks

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Yorick_Tran

I was baffled that this does not work either!

Ev_Davies

I swear this idea was implemented in a few versions of Figma, but it appears it’s broken again now?

It means I can’t use a single text style for a DS component when applying a hover interaction.

Here’s a GIF example, I don’t want the text style to revert to the (broken) text style I want the hover state to hold the new font, the interaction should just apple a decoration over my overridden text style.
Broken underline style

dennsi

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It’s really a bummer that we have to create multiple text styles just to account for that. I am really tired of that. Being able to apply an underline and subscript for CO2 are such — B A S I C — use cases.

RizePoint_Product

This feature would DRAMATICALLY reduce the text style definitions in our design system. Right now there are styles defined for body, header, each at 3 different weights, and each weight requires three more styles for regular, italic, and underline. It would be so, so much cleaner–not to mention easier to use–if italic/underline/strikethrough could be turned on for a style without breaking the link to the base style.

Jason_Post

+1 to allow modifying like “Decoration” to text styles already defined. I was about to start a new suggestion about this very thing, but did a quick search and found 121 votes for it already! Adding mine for 122!

Screenshot attached to show I need to break my style just to get a strikethru text

Zagami

Also voting for this, I find it almost absurd that this is not possible already. It really slows down the work and clutters styles list.

Jesse_Thompson

Came here to suggest the same thing. My use case is that I’m simply trying to make our links have black text with red underlines. I’d love to be able to control the colour of text underlines.

Amy_Schultz

Yes, please! I’m coming over from InDesign learning Figma and it’s absurd to me that this isn’t a capability. Seems like a basic override, which would be so helpful.