I’m having some issues vertically aligning my chosen font with icons - as you can see from the screenshot, the text’s bounding box doesn’t put the text in the center. I read through the Figma article from 2019 explaining their new way of interpreting baselines and the vertical centers of text, so I feel I’m doing it right, but it’s still off, as you can see. Do you guys have any idea why, or is the font chosen just not set up correctly?
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Hi, I’m facing the same problem of vertical alignment of some fonts having baseline spacing that it won’t align to center to the buttons. Each time I have to manually adjust the spacing… it’s frustrating and annoying. Please @Figma fix this problem or provide us with some solution.
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Workaround (not working with icons inside frame):
https://www.figma.com/proto/DEQ6tXHytHu4iqtuXmUzpg/button-centering-w-autolayout?
node-id=1%3A2&viewport=412%2C492%2C1&scaling=min-zoom
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Please @Figma look into this. I had the problem in the past (with a couple of fonts) and now having it again with the font ‘Calibre’. The misalignment messes with all of the component paddings and I’d need to go into every individual component trying to do a “manual alignment”.
I found multiple complains on the web about this and no answer from Figma (a couple of examples below). Please look into it.
- Old Spectrum forum post titled " Weird font line height / em box?!"
- Old Spectrum forum post titled " Font Calibri vertical-align in line-box"
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Hello @anon21722796 can you please provide a fix for this ?
It’s a true pain since my client’s font is ITC Avant Garde Gothic W1G and the same problem occurs.
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Same here. First I thought maybe the typeface was designed this way, BUT, there is no problem in XD…
Oh my, I thought I was going nuts when it came to this problem too and started blaming the typeface as the issue. Glad to see other people having this issue as well
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When I started to had this problem we was in the middle of a big design system project. Icons wasn’t align with text boxes . Also buttons, inputs are, wasn’t look symetrical up and down. We tried everything in figma’s menu features but it doesnt work. And we changed with a new font family (montserrat 
) the whole text styles. It took us with the all conrols 2 days. Problem was looks solved just for the moment. However, we can no longer easily use a font other than a few main families. This causes things to take longer. It so sad…
Now my solution…
This problem is mostly eyesoreing in single line text objects.
Select text box > align top (text section) > set the heigh under the text line manually > when under pixels getting the same with the top create your text style. When you use it in the autolayout this wouldn’t annoying anymore.
I know this is really stone age, but praticly it works.
Sorry for my mediocre english 
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I had the same problem with a paid font. After a bit research, I found this tool → https://transfonter.org/ . Just, upload your fonts, and don’t forget to change to “on” the option “Fix vertical metrics”. After this download the new fonts and replace them with your previous ones. Worked for me
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Having the same issue with Arco Perpetuo Pro font.
Like quite annoying, I was just digging deep into this font if it was the fault of it is @Figma_Support fixing this ?
A workaround that works with icons as well is to make a group containing text and spacers inside the button. The spacers are used to create same hight below the baseline and above the cap. with this you can align correct vertically. To hide the spacers set the opacity to 0% and voila your button aligns as intended.
Also having this same issue with the Open Sans font. It just seems to favor the top with more spacing.
I’ve tried manually tweaking the row height as well as the proposed fix above with aligning to top and setting the height- however it isn’t accurate at the subpixel level. This is a bit obsessive, but it can make the difference in a design looking polished.
Hi everyone 
Was there some kind of change on how Figma renders fonts today/yesterday? We started noticing and having weird issues a couple of hours ago with text that is part of a component. When we click on that text, its vertical position changes slightly.
Thanks for the help
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The issue lies in the font file itself, I’ve provided a video guide to fix this issue here:
(Skip straight to fix: 1:18)
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This issue lies in software not in font itself. See how differently xd or sketch display specific font. If there is software where you can center a text vertically and the other has problems, it’s not a font problem.
Unfortunately You’ve presented another workaround.
I am curious how other programs will react to this font edition.
I stand corrected, just checked out the fonts in Sketch.
Wtfigma?!
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