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There is a higher rate of dyslexia in designers - but design tools don't have good spell check?
almost 5 years ago from Eliot Slevin, Nostalgia Maker
Marc Edwards, almost 5 years ago
The current state of spell checking in design tools:
- ✅ Illustrator: Spell checking using Adobe’s dictionary.
- ✅ Photoshop: Spell checking using Adobe’s dictionary.
- ✅ Affinity Designer: Spell checking using Affinity’s dictionary.
- ❎ Sketch: Spell checking using the macOS feature, but very, VERY broken. Basically unusable.
- ❎ Figma: No spell checking.
- ❎ InVision Studio: No spell checking.
- ❎ XD: No spell checking.
Anton B., almost 5 years ago
*Browser version of Figma can use google chrome spellchecking
Can it? I can’t get that working here. Do you have instructions on how to get it working? Thanks.
Juan Gonzalez, almost 5 years ago Try Gramarly for your browser, i believe there is a desktop app
You can also just paste text into TextEdit or Pages or any other editor that has spell check.
Andrew C, almost 5 years ago Yeah but that's a pretty awful workflow.
It is. Better workflow than using Gramarly though.
John P, almost 5 years ago
Counterargument: Unless software does Word 95 style red underlines, it's not spellcheck.
Unless you have red underlines it's still something designers have to consciously do, which means if you manage a designer who can't spell it's still something you have to babysit on every single piece of work they do.
I totally agree about realtime spell check being a mandatory feature.
Charlie Pratt, almost 5 years ago
What's truly crazy here is that the check emoji has a green background, AS DOES THE X EMOJI.
Yeah, not ideal.
Yeah I've sent this as a feature request to Sketch. Haven't heard from them about it. A very appreciates addition since english is not my primary language. Not that I'm that great at spelling in my primary language either.