How to access font glyphs in a particular font set

Hi,

Your plugin does not solve the problem Ani3 is describing. “I am unable to find the glyphs set in particular fonts in Figma.”

Wondering if any one has solved this! Love to use all the alternative char in a specific font set!

Tank666 solution is good, but it doesn’t solve our problem. Has anyone else been able to find an answer to Ani3’s problem – “I am unable to find the glyphs set in particular fonts in Figma.”

A hack is that I pick the glyph this in illustrator and copy paste it to figma. That works pretty well, and pastes it in the same style used in figma.

This is absolutely mindblowing that there isn’t any way to access the glyphs of the font you are using. Seriously.

Agreed. Very disappointing.

Crazy that I posted this April 22, and there is still no fix for this!

I suppose it’s because Figma is typically for web/mobile but I still think it would be helpful in web/mobile. I’ve been using Figma for print materials and embarrassing to use the same character style for display text, for example. I mean you pay for an entire type family, you should be able to use and access it in it’s entirety in a tool like Figma.

Have the same need. Poor performance Figma not making all of a font available. Please fix this.

Need this too

I need this too please

But this does not display the glyphs in a specific font I’m interested in…
E.g. If I’m looking for a Heart glyph in Font Awesome, this would not enable me to find it.
This is certainly a need…

JIC this solves your particular need. I’m VERY used using Ai’s glyph panel when I’m laying type. I love fonts with tons of alternate glyphs, swashes, etc etc. In Figma, you can access these, at least generally speaking, in the “Type Settings” panel (the-dots overflow). In the “Details” tab, you’ll see “stylistic alternative” toggles. What I do is dup my type (words, paragraphs, etc) and I set an “ALL CAP”, a “lower case” and a “Sentence Case” when I go through the toggles. I usually find what I’m looking for and will manually combine into my final type set. Works for me! But does make me miss how good typesetting in Ai was.

This is not what OP is looking for.

Anything than can be acessed via low or high caps is definitely not a problem. We are talking about letter variants (handwritten fonts need those to have variety).

Lowercase uppercase is something completely different eventho some fonts have special characters in numbers or uppercase. Not not to be confused with glyph variants and alternate letter variations.

I’m seeing design systems posted that use Icon fonts like (Segoe Fluent UI) consisting of unique glyphs, but I don’t see a way in Figma to swap out the existing glyph with a different one from the same font. What am I missing? The plugin you referenced seem to allow droping only 1 set of glyphs.

Are icon fonts not supported?

The plugin does not have access to font files because this is not possible using the API. It displays Unicode characters regardless of font.

Right, but doesn’t Figma itself have any support for swapping glyphs from font icons? I can open 3rd party apps and select the glyph I want and then copy it into Figma but thats a really awkward workflow.

What would be the best way to support Icon fonts substitution in shared Design systems?

Unfortunately, this is exactly how everyone works in Figma who uses icon fonts. Here is the official documentation:

Thank you for this link and for the quick responses 🙂 🤜 🤛

This is the best solution. Just select the letter that you want to change, and go to the “stylistic alternative” that Andres says here, and you can just turn it on or off in every single letter of the text