Hi,
My font can’t be set to Italic, on the right side menu there is not italic option, and when I select the left side menu, FIGMA/Text/Italic, nothing happens.
The font I stored in my project and this applies for all users in our team and on windows app as well on the web browser.
The font is blinker, you find it here:
This font has no problem with italic in other software, like office, gimp, Inkscape etc, or in web apps.
What can I do?
Hi there,
After checking your link, unfortunately, this is because the Italic one doesn’t exist for Blinker. This is why it can’t appear on Figma.
Why is FIGMA not capable of this when all other software can?
Is FIGMA really not capable of using fonts the way other tools can?
Hmm, this looks odd, if you are able to have it in another software. Please reach out to the support team by filling this form here. Our technical specialist can investigate further the issue that may be causing this on our end. Thank you!
Thanks, I filed a support ticket…
Variations:
· command (ctrl) + b
· command (ctrl) + u
Blinker is a Google font and does not include an italic style.
If other tools are showing an italic style, that might not be an actual font style, but an applied effect. Exactly what “other software” are you seeing this in?
But the true Blinker font from Google Fonts does not come with an italic version in the family.
How about searching the font on your hard drive and seeing if you really do have an italic version? I would be curious to know where it came from.
This does not work if there is no italic font in most cases. Funny, I JUST tried it myself with Blinker and that does not work.
PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Inkspace, Gimp, Irfanview, et etc, everything BUT FIGMA.
I can confirm with you that in Microsoft products, you CAN apply the italic styling WITH THE SOFTWARE to the font.
That said, I can “Command+i” or click the “i” icon to make the Blinker font italic.
This is a function of the tool itself.
Figma serves the fonts that are provided in the font family.
So no italic font face, then no option for italic.
I was a little surprised myself that the “Command+i” did not work in Figma.
I think the ticket is the right way to go. But it is not going to get resolved by help desk. I would also submit it as a feature request.
I support your thinking that it is a bug. But not really. It is just something Figma did not build in.
Hope that helped somehow.
This is the expected behavior of every software except font design software perhaps. When I use it in my web-application and apply Italic styling it renders as Italic. FIGMA is a design tool for web-application, hence FIGMA should render it as the browsers do.
This makes this a bug in the FIGMA software, but there is also a bug in the product management, that they intentionally do not render as web-browsers do. There are more examples of that….
I added bug reports and feature requests, but FIGMA people doesn’t understand what this is about.
GIMP is probably using a “faux” (fake) italic. That’s just when you take a font and apply a skew to the letters. CSS can do this too – you can apply faux bold or faux italic to any font using CSS regardless of whether or not italic is supported in the font. Figma doesn’t offer this. The best you can do is go into “plugins” and use a skew plugin to make a “faux” version yourself.
Adding faux bold and italic would be a great feature for Figma to add. It would make it more useful for people using display and handwritten fonts that do not have italic or bold. It would also make it more feature complete in comparison to its competitors.
In all places, not just here (e.g., github issues, reddit, etc.), people sometimes get annoyed when people complain and criticize, but I personally love it when people complain because it’s great feedback and gives the devs a potential direction to go in.
