Can we get a true aspect ratio lock when the ‘Constrain Proportions’ is on? A true aspect ratio lock means two things:
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.
When resizing on the parent of a node with ‘constrain proportions’ that happens to be constrained, 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.
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New figma user here frustrated that I can’t figure out how to get my icons to have a fixed aspect ratio.
Nice job Figma, thanks for getting round to this :) an evolution i would like to see is aspect ratio variables we could apply to the lock
designers could pick from predefined ratio’s
developers could see that ratio in dev mode with either a raw aspect ratio value or a semantically referenced ratio
we could have code parity to aspect ratio tokens
Didn't get this feature Figma please give me that! I really need it.
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.
The release is great (finally!) but it seems like the new ratio lock weirdly rounds up dimensions to the nearest pixel value (when you input a round value in width, height is round up causing a break in the aspect ratio, especially at very small, sub-pixel dimensions).
Anyone who worked with aspect ratio lock hacks knows that it’s annoying to have non-round heights but it should be the user’s choice to round or not. This currently makes the work of resizing vectors for icons very difficult.
Hey @AntoineP ,
Thanks for your detailed feedback! Does this occur with specific files or all files? And does it happen in the browser, desktop app, or both?
Can you try using the quick actions menu to turn off "Snap to pixel grid"?
Please let us know if this resolves your issue!
The update is great, I wish the old icon was kept though, as it’s universal.
Hey @AntoineP ,
Thanks for your detailed feedback! Does this occur with specific files or all files? And does it happen in the browser, desktop app, or both?
Can you try using the quick actions menu to turn off "Snap to pixel grid"?
Please let us know if this resolves your issue!
Thanks, disabling snap to pixel indeed solves the issue. I’m a little surprised because this wasn’t necessary to do the same kind of actions before the update. So now we have a slightly confusing behavior with snap to pixel enabled (which I would say is the default setting for most):
When using locked aspect ratio, dimensions are rounded to the nearest pixel value
In “free” aspect ratio constraints, they aren’t
Nothing indicates that this will happen, at least a tooltip would be welcome.
This is a great enhancement and I’m looking forward to seeing how it place in cards and layout components. One issue I’m having, since its ‘replaced’ the old control, it seems to have also ignored the previous setting. I have an icon library with a few hundred components that have all gone from locked ratio to not locked - so I have to turn on the new setting and re-publish.
Has anyone else encountered this?
@Seamus_Leonard2 I encountered the same thing, all or most of my icon components were ratio locked but they weren’t after the update.
@Seamus_Leonard2 I encountered the same thing, all or most of my icon components were ratio locked but they weren’t after the update.
I’m sorry to hear this, but glad that I’m not just loosing my memory!
Another really weird thing is that its not tracked as a change in my library, meaning the file is not prompting me to ‘publish changes’ despite this modification.
Hey everyone! Thanks for sharing your feedback.
In order to help our team investigate, could you clarify the following:
When you manually re-enable Aspect Ratio Lock (ARL) does Figma prompt you to publish changes in your library, or does it not detect the change?
Before the update, were all your icon components set to “Constrain Proportions,” or just some?
What steps are you taking when trying to re-enable ARL and publish? (Feel also free to share a video recording if possible. We recommend uploading it to an external platforms such as Dropbox, Google Drive, or Loom, and sharing the link directly in your post.)
A true aspect ratio lock means two things:
, the node takes on the smallest of its supposed width and height, and calculates its ratio accordingly.
