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Ryan_Messick
April 1, 2021

Custom spacing in lists between paragraphs and between numbers/bullets and text

  • April 1, 2021
  • 37 replies
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Thank you figma team for the new list feature! It has been my most anticipated feature for YEARS. There are 2 features that I would love to see to support it.

  1. I believe lists should support paragraph spacing between bullets.

  2. I am unable to start an ordered list at any number other than 1. Which feels too restrictive. I type 2. and start typing and figma changes it to 1.

Does anyone else agree? Is there anything I missed?

37 replies

mcram
September 20, 2021

yes, exactly. Some of the other requests would be nice too but this simple addition should be bullets version 1.1.

Aaron_Benjamin
September 28, 2021

Has this fix been prioritized yet? The workarounds to apply spacing are getting silly.

djv
Figmate
Community Support
September 28, 2021

Hey All,

We heard your feedback and made an update to bulleted and numbered lists. You can now adjust the spacing between listed items in the type details panel. More info here:

Figma Help Center
h.rude
October 13, 2021

thanks a lot for this update! This is so great. Thanks a lot.
I’ve noticed some inconsistencies at least on my end. Sometimes the “list spacing” doesn’t how up at all, and sometimes it does. I’ve tried to remove the bulletpoints and add them once again - but it doesn’t work. I cannot enable the “list spacing” property.
And in my case even when I have the “List spacing” and I’d like to change it, I can’t. After setting it to 10, 60 oder 100 nothing happens.

I’ve also tested the list specing on a empty canvas and there it seems to work. This is really odd.

h.rude
October 13, 2021

i think I found the condition for this to happen.
So, if I copy paste a list, the “list spacing” doesn’t show up.

h.rude
October 13, 2021

I have reported a but, but now I’m not sure if this really is one.
So it seems like you cannot set the spacing independently from you typography? I have to do the adjustment on my global text style. Which actually also makes sense.
I think I was just confused, because changing the decoration e.g. detached it from the global fontsize automatically. So I’ve expexted that this would happen for list spacing as well.

But you just have to know how it is intended to work.

Tsogt_Erdenebal
New Member
January 13, 2022

paragraph spacing is not working on bulleted text

Timothy_Van_Martin
August 1, 2022

This may sound crazy but my work around is to create an individual text box for each bullet point and use auto layout – that gives you a world of freedom.

noah_tsutsui_sawhorse
August 1, 2022

It’s sad how right you are.

Neil_Roose
New Participant
November 7, 2022

This does not address the issue at all. Seems you didn’t hear the feedback at all.