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Find Font (globally replace one font with another)

Include a "find font" panel like in Adobe Illustrator to globally replace one font with another. Even with the symbol/assets panel this is hard for documents that you did not architect and may require a lot of extra work (i.e. the iOS UI kits in a windows environment where San Francisco font has to be downloaded from third party sources and converted manually to .ttf)

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  • Richard commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Step 3 was there just to show me what I was going to change.

    It would also be nice to hear if this process was 'useful' rather than that one step was 'useless'.

  • Vnz commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Step 3 is useless

    1. Select a word in the text that you want to change
    2. Select Add Character Style
    4. Right click on the new Character Style and select Edit.
    5. Change the Font to what you want

  • Richard commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Try this. It worked for me.

    1. Select a word in the text that you want to change
    2. Select Add Character Style
    3. Right click on the new Character Style and select Highlight on Canvas
    4. Right click on the new Character Style and select Edit.
    5. Change the Font to what you want

    All of the selected text is now in the new font.
    You may have to repeat this process for font size variants.

    Hope it works for you.

  • Tyler Barber commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Its ridiculous how this is not a feature. XD can tell me when a font is not supported, show me all instances of the font, and let me replace them with another. But it can't let me perform the same task when there isn't an issue??

  • Simon Müller commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    That is a really good idea and an absolute necessity for our Prototypes when we work on different enddevices iOS/Android.

  • Rakel commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    It's not exactly the same as find and replace font, but it essentially does the same thing as long as you set it up a little beforehand. Go to the Assets Panel and you'll see the ability to add character styles. Set this up while you are designing your artboards and then changing it is pretty easy, you can just right click on the style and hit edit... then any instance of that style will be modified.

  • Stevo commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    My product manager wants me to change all the fonts to another font because it's not supported in another local language.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    You can replace font through Select all > Assets panel > Character styles. Then Edit and select other font.

  • Tim Howard commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Casting my vote (a whining plea actually!) for a project wide font replacement function or (perhaps more useful) a font find/change feature.

    I'm starting with a rather robust commercial UI kit and must replace all occurrences of the included font due firstly to licensing restrictions as well as design decisions.

    Manually selecting each of the elements and changing the font is at best an extreme timesink.

    Consideration for near-future implementation would be greatly appreciated and heavily used.

  • JBWHarris commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Needs a Find Font function. And all the people saying XD should be more like Illustrator, I'm sure they mean InDesign, an actual layout program.

  • Ron Frank commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Even implementing this without the replacement features but just highlighting the text elements that contain the missing font would be a HUGE first step. Please fix soon.

  • Thomas Hale commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I think following the find and replace font dialog from Adobe Illustrator would be effective here. You could go through each instance 1 by 1, or, you could change all instances.

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