Support Opentype font features
Allow users to select Opentype features supported by a given typeface. This would be especially useful for anyone designing for ecommerce (tabular lining numerals), or text-heavy sites (small caps, proportional old style numerals), or rich typography in general (alternate stylistic sets, swashes, superscript, subscript, fractions). Common ligatures seem to be enabled already, but there's no way to access discretionary ligatures.
https://klim.co.nz/blog/towards-an-ideal-opentype-user-interface/
Several of these features already exist as separate requests that you may also want to upvote:
- More control over ligatures – https://adobexd.uservoice.com/forums/353007/suggestions/13205751-ligature-options
- All caps – https://adobexd.uservoice.com/forums/353007/suggestions/13388451-it-would-help-for-more-typography-options-caps
- Superscript/subscript – https://adobexd.uservoice.com/forums/353007/suggestions/14844018-superscript-subscript
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Jan Shapiro commented
Would LOVE to be able to see GLYPHS in ADOBE XD. This would be a great asset and most helpful. Please add this option if possible! Yes, we want GLYPHS. :)
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SproetS commented
Changed to Figma...
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Anonymous commented
We want glyphs
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Jo Manley commented
Defo need this feature urgently. We have clients requesting alternate otf styles and cannot supply. This is pretty basic now, all other adobe progs you can but in xd you can’t? MADNESS
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cat jazz commented
It is available in all other Adobe products. In addition, Figma already supports open-type functionality; it lags behind Figma in terms of functionality as a design tool.
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Stu Nami commented
We design social tiles with fancy fonts that need ligatures, swash alternatives. We dont use XD only for app design! We use it for ALL screen design. So we need XD to step up its game for designers with commonsense features.
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김남규[UX디자인팀] commented
PLEASE add this. This is crucial.
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Nicolas R commented
can't believe this is not already supported in 2022
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Katja Bruhin commented
Must have feature in XD to be working properly as a designer what most of us are. Please add it soon.
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sue commented
Please add this feature! It's available in all the other Adobe products. Not to mention Figma has supported open type features since September 2019!! Clients care about these details. I'm regretting not working in Figma :(
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Nina Ruppen commented
please add this, it would be very useful
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Steven McClenning commented
Tabular Lining Numeral !!! This would be a big help
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lilbox commented
PLEASE add this. This is crucial.
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ghowarth commented
Please have a look at Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign or Figmas support of OpenType. It's wild that I literally can't use tabular lining from a standard font like Raleway in AdobeXD. Having to switch my project to Figma until we have basic typographic features in XD.
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Dan commented
+1 on this request. We are unable to move our designs from Illustrator into XD without the opentype fonts breaking/reverting. This is an important feature and it would be appreciated if this could be turned on as a beta feature at least.
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Peter commented
Please add this in. I need to be able to switch between lining and non-lining numerals in XD.
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oliver commented
please sort this out. I will have to drop XD for client work whose brand font uses these features.
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Michael commented
Can you please add this really important feature. When designing a table with numbers, and the standard setting for the chosen font are oldstyle figures, I can't change them to table figures. So what to do? Choose Figma or Sketch?
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CarlH commented
Please add this feature. It is essential in laying out basic typography.
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MarkR commented
PLEASE!!! support Opentype and Variable Font technology!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How is it that Adobe helped develop these OTF & VF tech and yet their apps don't support it? Normally it would be unbelievable and unconscionable, but then this is post-2012-Adobe.