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LuisPaico
February 9, 2021

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

  • 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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97 replies

Will_C
January 3, 2023

Would be great if someone from Figma could respond to this thread.

Fernando9
January 11, 2023

+1 Please do it already =)

Cheryl_Lemoine
New Member
January 16, 2023

Holy geez, this has got to be implemented!! Figma, are you listening to this thread?? Running into this exact issue building our design system. I echo the comments that it’s ridiculous to have to either build in underlines in another font style OR break the link to apply them… /mutters to herself “I can’t believe this is a thing…”

Diana_Pop
January 17, 2023

+1 this - it would help sooooo much to have this!

Bauke_Schildt
Active Member
January 25, 2023

If this is still something you need, instead of doing this manually, you should use the subscript unicode character for that. Most (but not all) fonts support this.

Char Description
₀ subscript 0
₁ subscript 1
₂ subscript 2
₃ subscript 3

CO₂

Same for superscript:

Char Description
⁰ superscript 0
¹ superscript 1
² superscript 2
³ superscript 3
⁴ superscript 4
herkulano
New Member
February 5, 2023

Yes, yes and yes!

James_Mckernan
New Member
February 6, 2023

+1 Needs to be fixed!

dennsi
Active Member
February 15, 2023

Also this:
Once a text style is applied all type settings that are inseperable from the style are hidden in the menu (left screenshot). Case still appears in the menu list but it should be hidden as aswell since it breaks the style and cannot be changed independently.
Feel free to vote here:

Ryan_Hudson-Peralta
March 1, 2023

This works until the text wraps

Tomas_Kvasnicka
New Participant
March 24, 2023

Usually, this is the problem for body text styles (paragraphs) where you often need to add not only strikethrough and underline but also bold, for example.

The system solution would be to introduce text style variants or parameters, just like components have it. For example, the design system creator might decide that an H1 headline would allow only one possible variant (because you don’t want your designers to change it), whereas the Body text would offer more variants (e.g., regular, bold, underline, strikethrough).

Right now, we have 5 different sizes for Body text in our design system (Body 1 to Body 5). Each of them has separate styles for regular and bold weights, i.e., 10 different styles (not to mention mobile versions). When we need strikethrough or underline text, we have to detach the style because that is less painful than having 40 different text styles. It is still very painful, though.