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Adobe XD: Feature Requests (Read-Only): 01 : Design mode

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Color Agnostic Character Styles

I want the option when setting up character styles that there doesn't need to be a color associated with the character style.

For example, I set up my H1, H2, H3 with their respective font families, font weight, & font size. But my design has different background colors. Sometimes my H1 is lack on a white background, which is how I set it up in the Character Styles. While other times my H1 is white on a black background,. But if I change the H1 to white it no longer correlates to the H1 I setup in my character styles unless I create another H1 variant that has the color white.

I would like if my character styles were color agnostic so I can make sweeping changes when editing my text without having to create multiple color variants of my character styles

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Update on this ridiculous limitation pls?

    It's clear now why multiplayer editing was prioritised: because it takes a whole team of designers to maintain character styles.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Can someone from Adobe please provide an update on this? It would be good to understand if this request has been reviewed or not this seems like a pretty simple feature that XD should have.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    The fact that this hasn't been implemented yet is so ridiculous when other competitors have this out of the box. My team is now considering pivoting to one of those options as this is just unmanageable in it's current form. Making Character Styles for every color variation is so backwards.

  • Scott c Schweigert commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please add this. no one wants to have triplicates of characters styles because they're all different colors.

  • Tony M commented  ·   ·  Report

    It would be good to understand if this request has been reviewed or not. This is one of the items that makes our team strongly consider competitors.

    I think the most important thing here is to remove the color from the character style and allow the color applied to be chosen from the color palette, as those are already named. From our experience the colors applied are typically chosen from the existing color palette of our guidelines and not unique to the character style, so merging the 2 makes it very hard to manage.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please for the love of god make this simple change.

  • Joyce Lin commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please add this! It's a horrible constraint when trying to make global changes on a big project.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please fix this Adobe! We need more robust character styles.

  • Benjamin Wasula commented  ·   ·  Report

    When defining character styles in the assets panel, they should be independent of color.

    Consider a H1, at some point this H1 could be colored black or white at some other instance. Any change made to the H1 on the assets panel should apply the new style to both H1 instances irrespective of their color, and or, any other H1 instance used throughout a design project

    This eases work whenever any changes are needed.

    Best Regards,
    Wasula Benjamin

  • Daniel Robert Prieto commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please do. Either make character styles work like Figma where the colours are disconnected from the character styles. I can't create big projects in XD for this reason. It makes no sense in the current estate.

  • ricky commented  ·   ·  Report

    consider just copying figma if your team can't do something well

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Shameful Adobe! All the fancy updates and you can implement this basic thing in two years since it has been requested. Users are right to migrate to Figma.

  • Thibaud Van Vreckem commented  ·   ·  Report

    I'm sorry to say that the way the global style variables are implemented in xd leaves a lot to be desired...

    The existential purpose of Global Style variable is to allow global editing.
    if a new character style needs to be created for each possible color of that character style it defeats the purpose and even more so considering that colors can be saved as global style variables in their own.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please solve this request!!

    Sketch, Figma can do.

  • Jon commented  ·   ·  Report

    I also want to be able to apply a text style and a color style at the same time.

    So the color style gets preference if selected. This way a text layer can have text attributes like size and font from the text style and color from the color style.

    I still think a color should be included in the text style but it should be default.

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