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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atomicvibe commented
OTF support is a basic feature that's supported in AI, PS, and ID. How is this not supported in XD in 2021??
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Julie commented
Please add this feature. It is really frustrating when we have purchased an expensive OpenType font for our corporate branding but can't take advantage of all its features in XD. We use XD for social assets for better image optimization, but can't take advantage of the type features of InDesign or Illustrator.
Need to be able to support Tabular or Proportional Lining for Numerals.
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Anonymous commented
Feel like to do properly brand-aligned user interfaces this feature needs to be included to allow designers to properly use chosen fonts. We mainly need the options around the use of numbers including lining and tabbing. We currently can't design how the numbers should behave for client sign off. Bit of an issue when designing a platform for a bank.
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carla pinto commented
What a disrespect for your consumers.
Get it real for god sakes -
Anonymous commented
It's 2020. How are OTF's still not supported?
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Anonymous commented
Yes alternate figures are standard in design, also in UI Design if you have tables or to make a longer text more natural to read.
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Matza commented
"font-variant-numeric": Possibility to choose oldstyle nums, lining nums, tabular nums …
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Matza commented
Key feature. Why is this missing in XD?
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Chris commented
Big plus one for stylistic sets. Only Illustrator and InDesign have this feature right now, but both of those have super clunky interfaces compared to XD. Would love to see this as a dropdown menu option for XD—any way to access the stylistic sets would be a big benefit.
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silllli commented
As all modern fonts have OpenType features and they are well supported in modern browsers this is highly needed.
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saz commented
I need proportional matrix for good japanese types. (font-feature-settings: "palt" | "pwid" | "pkna" )
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Mukul Ishwar commented
Basic need Adobe, we need these first.
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Mukul Ishwar commented
Please include small caps, kerning(metric and optical) and tabular lining for numbers as opentype features.
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Christoph Mauerhofer commented
We would also need support for activating tabular numerals (font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums; / font-feature-settings: 'tnum';).
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Karen Beal commented
Really need support for open-type features such as lining figures!
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Wendy Honeycutt commented
This is very important for me, as it is one of the biggest hold-outs for being able to use XD as my primary tool. I work on an e-commerce website for a large retail company. Our main typeface on the website comes from Adobe Typekit, but we use the stylistic alternative. In Illustrator, I can choose the stylistic alternative in the OpenType panel, but that is not an option in XD. This means it is really impractical to use XD for any design prototyping for our site as I can't use our primary typeface in XD (...and otherwise I generally love XD). Until this changes, I am forced to stay in Illustrator and export screenshots to upload to InVision (bleh). I want to design and prototype right in XD because the results are SO much better than a screenshot. I also want to try and convince some folks here to switch over to XD. Help!
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EmanueleSabetta commented
Please add support for OpenType-SVG fonts.
They are becoming a designer best friend.
You already added support for them in Photoshop:And you already support SVG in XD, so adding OpenType-SVG support should be very easy.
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C. L. commented
+1 Tabular lining numerals. More of an issue because we use Raleway and it seems to default to old-style numerals.
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James commented
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James commented
Support variable fonts as foundries begin to sell 'flex' or variable versions of families. (e.g. http://www.underware.nl/fonts/zeitung/features/Flex/)
http://blog.typekit.com/2016/09/14/variable-fonts-a-new-kind-of-font-for-flexible-design/