For some fonts, when presenting, underline decorator only shows when there are letters with descent, like "p"

Thanks for the feedback.

I think you’ve already tried, but please let me share the common font issue and trouble shooting links.

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Thanks,
Toku

Hi Toku,

Thanks for your kindly answer.

In my case I finally solved the issue by installing the font, Manrope, from the designers’ website instead of get it from Google Fonts. But this is not exactly my point anyway.

Figma as a product comes with a bunch of free fonts, and Figma also allow to set a decoration, in that case, underline, to those fonts. Being it is true that the main cause of the issue is due to the font itself, it is also true that is part of Figma responsibility to provide a robust system that can take into consideration the “faults” of the provided fonts, because at the end the underline is there, is drawn, so the feature works, even on fonts that lack of an specification on how the underline decorator must be shown (I don’t know, probably by setting a height for the underline stroke).

The exactly problem comes when you add an interaction, like hovering, to a text without any decorator using a faulty font, if that text doesn’t have any letter with a descent (like a “p”) then the hovering state (with the underline decorator) doesn’t show, so looks like Figma cut out somehow the interactive area of the text without taking into consideration the full height of the text (with the descent), since the decorator is painted below the baseline, unless there is a letter with a descent (which force Figma to get which is painted below the baseline), no underline decorator is shown.

Basically, what I mean is; to avoid that kind of problem, Figma could take into consideration that some fonts they provide come with a lack of underline specification, and consequently provide a more robust handling of those fonts, like, in that case, considering to just revisit the way that cut out of surfaces on text rendering for presentation mode works.

Thanks again.