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BorojiDesignInc
New Participant
February 19, 2021

Word spacing feature

  • February 19, 2021
  • 25 replies
  • 9521 views

There is no way to add spaces between words in typography section in Figma. There is a huge difference between letter spacing and word spacing in typography. However, we only have the ability to change the spacing of letters instead. There is even a CSS property called word-spacing.

word spacing in CSS

Letter spacing in CSS

So can we have the simple word spacing feature added to Figma typography section

25 replies

Wes_Button
April 12, 2022

Found this after searching Google - super surprised its not in Figma.

Rodrigo_Lopez
April 12, 2022

indeed, word spacing is a must have.
Far from perfect UX, with a plugin is relative easy to emulate the feature with letter spacing applied to spaces, but u will end up with the spacing as “mix” in the properties UI panel. But could work ok if it generates a clone of the text object in the editor, so it doesnt screw the original text node.

Prabhnoor_Singh
January 28, 2023

Word spacing is used to increase the readability of font-weight above 600 and of enlarged text such as headings. Maybe the product manager did not find a big enough reason to include word spacing!

Daniels_Rogulis
February 2, 2023

Waiting for this feature :)))

Nichole1
New Member
February 10, 2023

Please add this feature. The latest accessibility guidelines reference word spacing minimums and users being able to change this setting. I’d like the ability to control word spacing in my designs to see how they are affected when changed.

_ok
New Member
April 7, 2023

I absolutely need this feature, thanks for bringing it up!

letter-spacing is not enough and it feels bothersome to create a single text-field for each word and put them in an auto-layout just to fake word-spacing 😢

April 19, 2023

Keeping this thread alive. Yes please to word spacing!

May 4, 2023

Hey, guys! Please, don’t forget the word spacing. Thank you!

Rishav_Sharma
May 5, 2023

Was looking for this feature and found this thread. Please bring word spacing to figma.

Nickolov
May 16, 2023

another dummy feature missing… why dont they make the source public? I guess the community would instant PR the missing features. instead of dealing with over 3k plugins.