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Matty_Vazquez
Active Member
May 12, 2023

Add a Highlighter for Text to the Type Settings

  • May 12, 2023
  • 58 replies
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Allow us to change the background color of text (not just the text fill color) to give a highlighter effect that stays with the words that the effect is applied to even when the size/shape of the text box is changed.

For example:


The above shows two examples of the same ipsum (left and right) where specific words are highlighted. When the size of the text box (the left example) is changed to accommodate a responsive layout (the right example), the highlighting stays with the selected words.

The way to add highlighting for the above examples could be included in the type settings pop-over:

Note: the idea here is that the user can apply this to specific sets of selected characters within a text box or to the entire text box, just like how all of the other type settings already behave.

58 replies

Cornelius_Kluge
New Member
May 17, 2023

Have to agree, this feature would help a lot in certain cases! Workarounds for this right now are rather… complex.
This thread already went through some solutions, but the plugin didn’t work for me, and I’m not keen to create my own font in order to highlight text…

Arijit_Das
August 11, 2023

Yes, please. This is such a basic function and is widely used.

Vivi_work
August 14, 2023

Yes, please!!!

October 2, 2023

Another vote. I’m stuck. I can’t use a workaround for huge medical notes that need specific words highlighted in a responsive layout.

Priyanka_Rai
October 13, 2023

Please please.

Wassim1
October 16, 2023

I’m currently wanted to use the text highlights in my project and i was surprised that i couldn’t find this basic functionality! Can you please add it?

October 18, 2023

Yes please, I’m using a lof of text highlighting in my UX

October 20, 2023

yes please

d.porotikov
October 31, 2023

Can’t agree more with this idea, I need this functionality too!

mark.hanley
New Member
November 7, 2023

Hope this gets added!