REM and "font-size" for Inspect

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February 25, 2021
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Our developers spend a lot of time in Figma Inspect, having to convert everything from pixels to REM. Implementing a way to specify the document’s “font-size,” or the equivalent of 1 REM and being able to turn on REM measurements in inspect would save so much time and make our design to development handoff easier.

edit: Yes, we could use Zeplin but we are an enterprise team with many projects - why pay for yet another subscription if Figma could implement this one thing?

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Kasper_Rasmussen

Love this idea!! 🙌

Niclas_Lundberg

Excellent idea, would be really great! Could potentially reduce communication errors, as well as better communicate intent by the designer, as well as increasing the possibility of designers learning more about dev environments and implementation.

Roxanne_G

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Absolutely!!! Same. Thank you @Louie_Morais I was just drafting this almost exact request, and found yours, so +1 infinity.
And triple yes to let designers pick a root font size i.e., base rem on a design file. The app I work on has a root font size set to 14px.

Here’s how I spec for the developers using my design files (time consuming)

Another great article [Back to Basic: Should we use Rem, Em or Pixel?]

13an

hmm… when would Figma support rem? I’m waiting for it!

Roxanne_G

New Participant

Me too! 🤞

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anon49052236

@Figma_Team - any idea where this is on your roadmap? Will we see it in 2022? Our engineers are not happy and lack of this feature makes handoff in figma useless.