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

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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/

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  • Jan Shapiro commented  ·   ·  Report

    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. :)

  • Jo Manley commented  ·   ·  Report

    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

  • cat jazz commented  ·   ·  Report

    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.

  • Stu Nami commented  ·   ·  Report

    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.

  • Nicolas R commented  ·   ·  Report

    can't believe this is not already supported in 2022

  • Katja Bruhin commented  ·   ·  Report

    Must have feature in XD to be working properly as a designer what most of us are. Please add it soon.

  • sue commented  ·   ·  Report

    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 :(

  • lilbox commented  ·   ·  Report

    PLEASE add this. This is crucial.

  • ghowarth commented  ·   ·  Report

    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.

  • Dan commented  ·   ·  Report

    +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.

  • Peter commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please add this in. I need to be able to switch between lining and non-lining numerals in XD.

  • oliver commented  ·   ·  Report

    please sort this out. I will have to drop XD for client work whose brand font uses these features.

  • Michael commented  ·   ·  Report

    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?

  • CarlH commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please add this feature. It is essential in laying out basic typography.

  • MarkR commented  ·   ·  Report

    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.

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