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Allow percentages for line height

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
April 17, 2024
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Firstly great job Figma Font variables are here!!!

Figma tutorial: Variables for typography

The only thing missing is the use of percentages in the line-height property.

You can not use a percentage in the line-height as it only accepts variables that are a number type.

Although the variables for line-height caters for pixel (absolute) line-heights (10,12,14)- it does not accommodate relative line heights.

In other words you can’t use percentage variables for line heights that are a percentage of the font size (100%, 120%,150%).

Interestingly …You can use a variable for letter-spacing ( which accepts a number variable - but reads it as a percentage) - the challenge remains that line heights by default are absolute not percentages - even though you can input a percentage.

Percentages allow greater flexibility and less calculations

Word around would be to allow formula in a variable
e.g. =[variable] * 1.5

Or figuring out a way for the line height to be toggle between absolute or relative application of the number variable.

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djv

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Hey All, thank you so much for continuing to share your thoughts and experiences around this feature request!

We hear how important this feature is to so many of you, and we truly value the time you’ve taken to advocate for it.

We’ve already passed this feedback along and shared the impact it could have with the team. That said, to be fully transparent, the teams ultimately decide how features are prioritized, and we don’t yet have a concrete timeline for when or if this one will be implemented.

We know it can be frustrating to wait without a clear answer, and we really appreciate your patience and understanding as the team works through priorities. Please know your voices are being heard and do make a difference.

Nadia Carmo

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I also need this!

Matthias Fritsch

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Common Figma, it’s been a year and this is really blocking modern design practices!
Like it’s cool to have all the fancy AI stuff but not allowing % in tokens is embarrassing...

Aki Fukai

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+1 as well. Why? Single source of truth (in the code) is the rule to go. Then keeping it in sync with the Figma library — and vice versa.

Ideally this single source of truth can move from Figma library to encoded design system/FE UI-kit.

Peter_Muller

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Adding my +1

Cassie Anderson

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+1

Would also love to use percentages in a variable for letter spacing.

Mats1

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+1

Christos

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I don't mean to sound rude, but I don't understand your policy regarding the development environment. For almost 1.5 years, we've been requesting the ability to enter percentages as values in variables. It's already possible in the styles; you can enter percentages or even perform simple calculations with multiplication, addition, etc. You keep rolling out updates, and one of the most important features, as we can see in this forum, is the ability to enter percentages for line height. You can't sell Figma as a mega design system tool if it doesn't offer essential mechanisms for the people who actually create design systems. I repeat: we're talking about the ability to enter percentages! We're not talking about cutting-edge AI features! Please prioritize this ticket. Make it a spike, a hotfix, or whatever. After 1.5 years and an increasingly busy thread, it should have sunk in by now!