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Word spacing feature

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February 19, 2021
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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

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Marcio_Gutheil1

+1 on missing word spacing. Pretty please

Adam_Nystrom

Why haven’t they added this yet?

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Evans_Kariuki

The Letterspacing feature affects both word, and letter spacing in Figma. I tested this by comparing Figma’s settings with typesetting units from Adobe Illustrator.

In Ai, I used 100/105pt, tracking -20% and wordspacing at 70%. In Figma 100/105pt, Letterspacing at -5%.

The results aren’t an exact match, but they are quite similar. This suggests that by changing the Letterspacing in Figma, you affect both the letterspace and the wordspace. One doesn’t change independent of the other; they are linked (either optically or automatically).

One thing type nerds can’t do yet is custom kerning.

Toni3

Word spacing is the ultimate way of text refinement. As it is present in CSS, I think it doesn’t have to be a difficult implementation.

Please Figma, take care of our eyes 😀

Niklas_Larsson

Hi, relatively new Figma user here, and I just discovered there’s no word-spacing control. This seems super weird to me, as many have stated here already, it’s a key feature for creating high quality typography, and it’s already an established feature in CSS, so yeah, weird. And definitely needed. Please add it.