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Fernando_Lins
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February 29, 2024

Font Weight in Numbers on the Design Panel

  • February 29, 2024
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Currently Figma only shows font weights as Thin, Regular, Medium, Bold, Black, etc. on the Design Panel, and you can only see the actual value of the weight in the inspect panel, but it would speed up design spec work and documentation work a lot if in the Design panel, next to each weight it also showed the value for that weight, as in Thin (100), Regular (400), Medium (500), Bold (600), and so on, as it is what tokens should use and developers would implement most often.

    13 replies

    y_toku
    Figmate
    y_toku
    Community Support
    March 4, 2024

    Hi there,

    Thank you for sharing your idea! We greatly value your feedback, and we would like to gauge the reaction of other members in the community. We may consider it for future enhancements!

    Thanks,
    Toku

    Domanskey
    Domanskey
    March 27, 2024

    That’d be so useful!

      yahia_hasan
      May 5, 2024

      And that’s my need it’ll be amazing

        Ritchie
        Ritchie
        New Member
        May 14, 2024

        Would be most useful. Landed here trying to find out whether it was possible already.

          Daniel_Ortiz_Flores
          Daniel_Ortiz_Flores
          July 25, 2024

          Absolutely!! Totally agree with this suggestion m. We need to define typography weights variables in numbers.

            Tony_Rudolph
            Tony_Rudolph
            July 29, 2024

            Our developers also prefer this instead of the naming of the font weight.

              Dong_Liu
              Dong_Liu
              August 27, 2024

              Is it possible to display the font weight number and font name?
              （Regular +400）

                y_toku
                Figmate
                y_toku
                Community Support
                August 27, 2024

                I don’t think it’s available at the moment. If it’s a variable font, the weight in number will be shown in the settings modal:

                image

                But, the number is not shown the right panel like this:
                image

                Thanks for the feedback!

                BryanMcDowall
                BryanMcDowall
                October 4, 2024

                Could really use this.

                Currently switching between two fonts depending on locale (successfully using variables!). However, one has weights such as regular, medium, semi-bold, bold etc. and the other has W0-9, so they can’t share weight variables.

                Despite this, on the web, we use numerical (100-900) values for font weight, and they behave well.

                Adding support for numeric font weights would add a lot of value to variables imo.

                  Hani3
                  Hani3
                  October 9, 2024

                  We would love this 🙂

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