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Currently, if you would like to bold part a text using a certain style, you have to create an extra style with a different font-weight, then jump into text styles and pick a bolded one. Things get crazier if we would like italic, underline, strikethrough as well… 🤯


Fine. But this is not how coding works (something you’re trying to align to).

Usually*, we can just mark part of a text in styled with only font-weight property.


Something similar is required in Figma with the ability to assign shortcuts so we can easily use i.e. ctrl+B / cmd+B to assign bolded sub-style. Just like all your users work with text in any other software.

Optionally, these could be just pre-made options to pick (bold, italic, underline, strikethrough).



*I’m a designer not engineer though

It is not required to create separate text-style for same font-size. There are shortcuts available for text properties.

⌘ B to make bold, ⌘ I to make italic, ⇧ ⌘ X to make strikethrough and ⌘ U to underline text.

@Nilan

I wanted to say - such an action breaks the connection with the design system, but I’ve just checked and it seems they’ve adjusted it! Amazing!

But still, doesn’t solve the issue completely. For instance, stronger text doesn’t have to mean - bold, it can be semibold.

Note: There is no info about extra properties in the Dev Mode though. When extra styles used in the middle of the text, are.

Yes! Semi-bold would be super useful to have, we’ve had to keep separate text styles to support it instead

waiting for Semibold shortcut like ctrl+B for bold

True. There needs to be gui (and maybe shortcuts) to select anything other than just bold without breaking the connection. This breaks so much in my design system right now. Or at least let us define what Figma understands under bold. We use for a very good reason semibold als “bold” in our whole design system. Now we cant use it without creating 160 text styles.

re Figma Comments

I am using Windows Edge Browser with Figma. I am not using installed app etc. I can bold and italics, but not underline. What I would like to be able to do is to apply strike out to text in a comment. How do I do that? If people can’t, please add this ability for ‘comment only’, web browser only, ~invitedguest users such as myself. Thank you


caveat: I am an end user expert for the software that Figma is being used to mock up(?). I know nothing about Figma except that I can create comments. I am not, in this context, a software developer, or programmer, or IT person etc etc. Thanks

Also waiting for semi-bold shortcuts!


We tried to get around creating extra text styles for semi-bold by using modes, but unfortunately you can’t apply a mode to only one part of the sentence, it’s applied to the entire text layer.

If at least we could define in the settings the default boldness weight, as we can do with the nudge amount, it would be already very cool

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