It is mind boggling that Figma doesn’t support spell-checking on the Desktop app, and the only plugin that does a decent job is paid ($99 for all times). This is crazy, as design is as much good copy, as amazing eye candy. Please Figma, do something and focus on TXET instead of leaving poor designers to have diopter++ anytime we have to deliver a design. It is literally build into the system (on Macs, probably Windows as well). It is also build into the browsers!!!
Sketch is so much better at that, and the desktop experience is super smooth, so… hint hint… get another important feature done please!
It would be great to be able to access the OS-level spellcheck feature available to most text-based apps. I.e., highlight a word, right click and Define word or replace word with correctly spelled version.
We need to be able to add words to the spellcheck dictionary uniformly for teams (so everyone will use the appropriate spelling/capitalization etc. - some things might be different from company to company)
We should be able to flag words that aren’t on brand (ex: flag “continue” in buttons and substitute or suggest “next”.
Hi there. Another reason to include Grammarly is that Grammarly Business has company style guides. So a design team could implement a custom style guide that would not only spellcheck but also adhere to the specific style guides for that product. This would be incredible! Errors would be corrected from the beginning and would be far less likely to migrate all the way to production with this feature.
Alternatively, Figma could develop a proprietary customizable style guide and spellcheck feature. As Figma is our source of truth for both design and writing, it deserves to be considered a writing app, with the tech that all writing apps need.
I’m sorry, but publicly highlighting, and leaning on a good-effort-but-half-baked spell checking community plugin, for which there is a 7-day free trial before you need to pay to cover API access costs, is completely bonkers.
Figma needs a competent built-in spell checker.(Huge props to the developer of SPELLL, really. But this shouldn’t have needed to be made in the first place.)
I’m sure if anyone replies to this, they’ll suggest “write your content outside of Figma.” Cool, if only every situation could be that ideal. The reality is that people write in Figma.
I’m also sure that someone will take this as an attack on the community and efforts to fill this spell checking gap. It’s not. I have a crazy number of plugins installed that I absolutely adore. The community is easily a Top 3 aspect of Figma.
But, basic spell checking should be table stakes for any product shipping with a text input field. End of story. It’s intrinsic for pretty much any 1st or 3rd-party application on macOS and iOS, seems good-enough (at least exists) in most janky Windows applications, and so forth.
It’s frankly indefensible at this point that Figma does not have any form of spell checking capability. At the very least when utilizing the desktop applications.
Is any work being done here? Are we forever doomed to using good-enough and pay-for-it spell checking – a feature that has existed in decent form since the damn Bronze Age in our computing environments?
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When i right click on the title on the Windows desktop app to correct spelling I don’t get spelling suggestions
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A whole year is about to go by since this forum request was started, and this was a feature needed at launch. What’s really bad is plugins show that it isn’t a difficult feature to implement, and Grammarly can literally help make it for them. Personally, our UX writers will use other tools for proper grammar so the importance isn’t the writers needing it, but what it does come down to is this, I leave my team notes and I present mockups to clients. If I don’t see a red line telling me it’s spelled wrong, I won’t see it but other people will. It’s literally an accessibility aid for people like me with dyslexia, and we all want to showcase the best work we can and we don’t need hangups on spelling. I used Grammarly spellcheck 10x in this paragraph alone. When will Figma implement this feature, or who do we need to give a push to get this done? Let’s keep this thread alive and well until then.
I also feel like this should be standard. The few plug ins available aren’t as robust as I’d like them to be. Pay after a trial, selecting only 1 text layer, etc. isn’t very effective
I’m disappointed that the “32 Little Big Updates” does not include a native spellcheck. I’m sure it’s not a small feature to include, but this is also not a new request as we are going on 2 years since this thread was started. As a UX Writer working at an agency, a native spellcheck would be extraordinarily valuable to have, especially as we try to help our designers become better at writing initial copy.
Is this something that’s at least being worked on or even considered? If not, why not?
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Issue of not spelling words correctly - have the option to have spell check running
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