How easy would it be for Figma to have a simple item in the right-click menu (and main menu) for character count or word count?
Surely there are plugins like Word Counter, the one that I just tried and it doesn’t work 
. And easy enough to do it on the web. But how about I select the paragraph I worked with and see how many words I have? Right there where I am working?
Also, if this exists…educate me. 
Hey @KennLucas I just tried out this plugin here: https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/835015945650515753 and it seems to work.
Does not work here. That WAS in my original post but it looks like Figma-holes removed the link.
Hey @KennLucas,
That’s odd. I just tested it again, and it’s working as expected for me as well. Plugin creators provide their own support, so I’d flag an issue with the creator directly here: GitHub - Ligerx/figma-word-counter
In the meantime, I’ll pass this along to the team to consider adding a word/character counter feature in the future.
P.S. It looks like the link was previously auto-flagged as potential spam, but I can restore it as safe on the back end.
Hi @KennLucas In addition to the plugin mentioned above, I made an “in any case” plugin recently that besides transforming the text case also shows the characters, words, sentences, and paragraphs count in real-time. You can select any number of text layers or components and see the metrics in the plugin window (you can keep it open if you need to switch to different layers, all metrics will be updated in a blink), or you can use the quick “Count characters” action in the run menu.