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Letter-spacing bugged; scaling by the thousands

  • July 24, 2026
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Angie_Kersten

Hi,

For some reason my letter-spacing stopped working. When trying to change letter spacing, no matter which font, it scales by 1000% at a time without actually changing the text appearance. Video attached.

 

I copied/pasted text into another new file where letter-spacing was working, and it still did not work. 

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Jaycee Lewis
Figmate

Hey hey ​@Angie_Kersten 🤩 Thanks for you question and for including the video. Super helpful. 

I tried reproducing this in my own file:

  • Inter font with font size of 77
  • Manually tying and scrubbing to change letter spacing +/- with % and px

but, I got the expected behaviour.

A few quick questions:

  • Is the text plain, or using a text style, bound variable, or inside an instance? If so, an edit to that style/variable could be overriding your changes — explaining why it "stopped" and followed into a new file.
  • Roughly when did it start, and did anything change around then — a library update you accepted, a Figma update, switching machines?
  • Are you on the desktop app or browser, and which OS/version?

One quick test:

  • Click into the letter-spacing field
  • Clear it, and type 0 (or 0px) directly rather than scrubbing 
  • Does the text respond to that?

Thanks for the additional details! — Jaycee

 

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