Allow percentages for line height

[Kerry_Johnson_Personal]

To be honest, % would be great to have throughout the app in general (I was surprised we couldn’t set width/height to it), but this would be a great place to start. I’m sure all this will eventually culminate to Figma being a lite visual web editor with how programmatic/dynamic we are pushing Figma to be.

[Rodrigo3]

Still on the radar? Will it ever be released?

[Rodrigo3]

+1 please add percents on font variables

[Andreas_Nordenson]

This is such a big issue… disappointed with the lack of response from Figma and the uncertainty waiting for it to be implemented (or not)

[David.Stenbeck]

I heard a rumor that this feature will be added at Config '32 where their newly announced AI developer will finally start looking at the suggestion forums.

[Michael_K]

Great idea! I’m also for it!

[goatdev]

1000% we need this. No update on this since April

[Andre_Edqvist1]

This is proper ridiculous. Stop fidgeting about in chat GPT and finish your freaking semi-done features.

[Christian22]

My workaround is to duplicate the variable group of your font says and name it line-height. Then take your typescale percentage value for line height (i.e. 1.6 for perfect 4ths), and type " * 1.6" after the font value. Make sure to include space. Figma will automatically calculate the correct percentage value. Do this for each font size!

[Matty_Vazquez]

This is needed! Also seems to be similar to these threads about %:

Use percentage for size variables

Hello. I was wondering if it is possible to have percentage values in variables, like setting percentage value for frame widths or shape sizes (etc.) that have variable modes applied to them? Percentage values could respond better to content that varies within a frame or frames within frames.

Use percentages for heights, widths, margins, gutters in auto layout

This makes it easier to use components in designs for different screen sizes. And then you don’t have to calculate every time what 40% or 60% of the width is. This also makes it easier to design scalable applications that grow with the width of the screen.

[Marcin10]

As for me it is more importnt the AI tools and other enhancements that hace been recently added to Figma. I have a Design System and the only thing that as it comes to typography that makes me mad is lacking the line hight variable OR a formula that will accept multiplying like: variable * 1.5. Figma, please add it asap or we move to Penpoint : )

[Matthew_Ryan]

Another +1 for this. Our existing design system, which we are porting to Figma, exclusively uses percentages for line heights. With 11 line height options and 12 font size options, using variables for line height would require 132 distinct variables to be defined, and would be a major barrier to technical integration between our CSS and Figma component libraries.

[Cassie11]

This is 100% needed, line-height and letter-spacing variables are essentially useless without string input allowing for percentage based values.