How Do You Animate Typing in Figma?

How Do You Animate Typing in Figma?

Typing animation in Figma? You can't actually animate typing in Figma. I think there was a video on YouTube where some guy showed a workaround, but I'm not really in the mood to search right now..

//Edit - I found the guy

How Do You Animate Typing in Figma?

There's no getting around it: if you want to animate typing in Figma, - you'll have to get creative and follow the guy's advice from the video above. This limitation can be quite frustrating, especially if you want to create an interactive prototype, or emphasize certain elements.

You can always use other tools and import the animation into Figma, but that's also a lot of extra work.

You'll have to look for other solutions. Animating in After Effects, creating a GIF, or even a simple animation in Sketch might be the way to go.

Conclusion

If you're willing to spend the time and manually work on animating letter by letter like the guy in the tutorial above, then go ahead. Other than that - at the moment there's no tool that does it automatically for you in Figma.