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claudiaf24
New Member
May 19, 2025 2:04 AM UTC
Question

Allow Percentages in Variables

Please can we get percentages for variables? We can use percentages manually, but we can’t create a percentage as a variable. This would speed up my design to dev process tenfold, and considering we can already use percentages in the design, why disallow it in variables?

An example is I want store values for line height and letter spacing as percentages which behave responsively/dynamically, so when creating type variables I don’t have to do manual calculations, store 10+ letter spacing/line height values based on which font size they will be used with and hope I never change the font size variable in the future.

50 replies

Jonathan_Slavuter
New Participant
Jul 14, 2025 4:57 PM UTC

+1 on this

Thibault_Le_Petit_Garage
New Member
Jul 16, 2025 2:49 PM UTC

+2

Serhii Kovtun
New Member
Jul 25, 2025 8:46 AM UTC

+3

 

proactive
New Member
Aug 25, 2025 4:09 PM UTC

I found percentage guide plugin for FIGMA. 

It won't automatically update when you adjust the position or size, but it's useful because it saves you the trouble of calculating the default value as a percentage.

https://wooing7.gumroad.com/l/lluov

Mau Fontenele
New Member
Sep 19, 2025 12:39 PM UTC

I feel like this one is a must. +1!

HBRTK
New Member
Oct 25, 2025 3:08 PM UTC

+1

Konstantin Pöschl
New Member
Nov 6, 2025 10:43 AM UTC

+1 

That would change the whole way one designs. 

 

Bastian
New Member
Nov 8, 2025 3:40 PM UTC

This was 5 month ago, but it isn’t possible yet? You’re kidding, right? You present new features like Make etc. but we can’t put percentages into design systems? Really?

Dung Le
New Member
Nov 12, 2025 8:40 AM UTC

Please support percentage in variable +1

csereid
New Member
Nov 17, 2025 7:17 PM UTC

+1 to the request for percentage variables. This would be huge for line height especially, but I’m sure there are plenty of other use cases