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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

Jonny Rodriguez
New Member
Apr 1, 2026 1:35 PM UTC

+1 on this! Would be massively helpful to support multi-brand typography using variables. 

Hayley Cumming
New Member
Apr 2, 2026 4:36 PM UTC

+1 This would be super helpful for typography styling

Jacob_Nielsen
New Member
Apr 20, 2026 12:49 PM UTC

+1 This is a must for building a proper design system. 

Claire Sorensen
New Member
Apr 24, 2026 7:54 PM UTC

+1 How is this not a thing yet!

Jonathen
New Participant
May 1, 2026 2:12 PM UTC

please let this be a feature...my token studio imports only halfway work...sometimes it sets the line height correctly to the percentage but other times it uses the variable that is created (which transforms into a decimal).


Ex:
Token Studio lineHeightVar = 94% turns into Figma lineHeightVar = 0.94. Half the time the typography style uses the % but the other half it uses the Figma var so i have to manually edit it every time I import typography.

Jordan_Pass
New Member
May 8, 2026 10:34 AM UTC

+1

Jonathen
New Participant
May 11, 2026 3:20 PM UTC

please let this be a feature...my token studio imports only halfway work...sometimes it sets the line height correctly to the percentage but other times it uses the variable that is created (which transforms into a decimal).


Ex:
Token Studio lineHeightVar = 94% turns into Figma lineHeightVar = 0.94. Half the time the typography style uses the % but the other half it uses the Figma var so i have to manually edit it every time I import typography.

Line Height technically already allows for percentages in Figma so it only makes sense to allow for percentages in variables

Frost333330onrobloxplsfriendme
New Participant
May 11, 2026 3:22 PM UTC

Real

Agni Kaster
New Member
May 11, 2026 9:34 PM UTC

+1

Dave Debus
New Member
May 18, 2026 9:51 PM UTC

I need this as well.