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Sean_Sands
March 16, 2021

Define default padding for Auto Layout (or set to 0)

  • March 16, 2021
  • 77 replies
  • 17337 views
  1. Describe the problem your experiencing and how your idea helps solve this
    When you create an autolayout frame, it always defaults to 10px. Many design systems call for an 8px grid and in many cases, users don’t want ANY padding especially where edge-to-edge designs are concerned.

  2. Ask questions to bring the community into the conversation
    What are everyone’s thoughts about the following solutions?:

  • Default autolayout padding based on the big nudge amount in your settings
  • Allow for tokenization of padding/margin grids and offer up autolayout parameters based upon those tokens
  • Allow users to override the padding to 0px at the creation of the autolayout frame by using an alternative key command like ctrl+shift+a (command on mac)

77 replies

i-kat
January 12, 2024

+1 for 0 padding

joshmillgate
March 12, 2024

+1 for 0 padding

Sacha_WD
New Member
April 25, 2024

0px please!!!

Tutti_Brutti
April 30, 2024

+1 for 0px padding
omg pleaseeeeee stop making me delete 10px 10px 10px all day long. Please.

djv
Figmate
Community Support
April 30, 2024

Hey All, thanks for the feedback and sorry for the lack of acknowledgement here!

We’ll pass this onto the team for future consideration.

July 12, 2024

let me choose what the default auto layout spacing is, and let this default setting work with variables so i can link it to a specific pre-defined spacing variable

Laura_Fegan
August 21, 2024

+1 for 0 as default and being able to define (like with nudge amount)

Lauren_Blake
October 16, 2024

+1 for 0px padding! I kept thinking I messed up some default setting this whole time.

Bobby Kenner
New Member
January 26, 2025

I felt this too. It’s made worse by padding being more buried/truncated. Setting to 0 by default would be my ask.

Nils8
New Member
March 25, 2025

Bump !!!!
this is so anoying