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Mr.Biscuit
New Participant
January 23, 2021

LAUNCHED: True Aspect Ratio Lock

  • January 23, 2021
  • 214 replies
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Can we get a true aspect ratio lock when the ‘Constrain Proportions’ is on?WX20210123-114719@2x A true aspect ratio lock means two things:

  1. When dragging on a node with ‘constrain proportions’, its width and height always stay in their original ratio no matter which direction you drag it.
  2. When resizing on the parent of a node with ‘constrain proportions’ that happens to be constrainedWX20210123-112532@2x, the node takes on the smallest of its supposed width and height, and calculates its ratio accordingly.

This would be so very helpful to polygon shapes that want to stay in that shape. Consider a spider chart. When you resize its parent, you don’t want the ‘spider net’ to squish squash; neither will you want a doughnut to turn into an oval.

*Resizing of the node’s parent layer is inevitable if you need responsive designs.

Pinned Reply By Celine_

Hey everyone, thanks for your patience! It’s fully rolled out now!

You can now lock the aspect ratio of almost any object in Figma – including frames, shapes, images, videos, vectors, and text – so that the proportions of that object are respected as you scale the object or its parent container.

 More info in the release notes here.

214 replies

irina.ursache1
New Member
August 7, 2024

Been struggling with this one for sooooo long and the new UI’s Autolayout doesn’t like the plugins/ways around it. Please add this feature asap

Michael_Laugesen
August 7, 2024

+1 We need this 🥴
Why do we get ghosted for 3 years?

Matt_Rea1
New Participant
August 7, 2024

Hey all - I ran across this yesterday in my feed which suggests Figma is thinking about this. x.com
Take a look and comment I guess?

I would add that while a lot of users need this feature for images, but it is also needed for shapes as well.

djv
Figmate
Community Support
August 7, 2024

Hey All,

@Matt_Rea1 is correct. This is already on our team’s radar for future improvement.

x.com

It’s obviously taking much longer to build out than previously intended, but with your votes and feedback, we’ve already built up a good case on why we need to hustle with this.

David_Gaba
New Member
August 19, 2024

Bump. We really need this. And imho its such a basic feature that this should’ve been a thing for a long time.

Shanna_Middleton
August 28, 2024

This is a really basic feature, i cant for the life of me understand why it is not available. I am going to read through the workarounds. So confused by this.

Andrzej
New Member
September 3, 2024

Yep, You are here a long time… I have to join to You 🙂 I agree. We need aspect ratio option. +1

r_sh
Active Member
September 3, 2024

+1 constrain proportions is confusing with the current components/autolayout

Joe_Garlick
Active Member
September 5, 2024

Thank you! This is good to hear, although it took literally years for this to be even acknowledged by someone from Figma, which for a company the size of Figma and considering how much it costs to use is not great.

I think you need to say ‘we hear you, we are considering it alongside all the other feature requests’ or if you are going to work on it, ‘we hear you and we are actively working on it’ way more often. 🙂

djv
Figmate
Community Support
September 5, 2024

We hear you, @Joe_Garlick. I wish there was more I could do in regards to being able to provide more accurately paced timelines, but my community team here just passes along feedback.

To be transparent, teams will ultimately decide what they build, but they do use votes from the community and feedback to prioritize top requests.

What makes this feature request a bit more promising is that Miggi, who tweeted about this on X(formerly Twitter), is a Designer Advocate. The tweet in itself shows that the team is building their case to prioritize this sooner rather than later.

P.S. I didn’t start at Figma until August 2021. Up until then, the forum was primarily run by the community. We have a full team now able to advocate for the community.