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claudiaf24
New Member
May 19, 2025
Question

Allow Percentages in Variables

  • May 19, 2025
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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
April 1, 2026

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

Hayley Cumming
New Member
April 2, 2026

+1 This would be super helpful for typography styling

Jacob_Nielsen
New Member
April 20, 2026

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

Claire Sorensen
New Member
April 24, 2026

+1 How is this not a thing yet!

Jonathen
New Participant
May 1, 2026

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

+1

Jonathen
New Participant
May 11, 2026

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

Real

Agni Kaster
New Member
May 11, 2026

+1

Dave Debus
New Member
May 18, 2026

I need this as well.