Auto Layout’s auto spacing gets Around and Evenly, and the old default is renamed Between. Those are ​‘space-between‘, ​‘space-around‘, and ​‘space-evenly‘ from ​‘justify-content‘. Figma renaming its own concept to match CSS is the real news here, and the text wrap entry below does the same thing.

“When we say wrap it up, we mean Pretty and Balance.” Both are the CSS ​‘text-wrap‘ values, set on a layer, a paragraph, or a text style. ​“Balance” distributes text evenly across lines, ​“Pretty” avoids the single word stranded alone on the last line.

Figma reworked auto layout so it behaves like CSS Flexbox at handoff, closing the small gaps that used to force developers into workarounds to match the canvas. The border-box model is now the default: inside strokes count toward layout like a CSS border, outside and center strokes are excluded like an outline, padding is never squeezed below its set value, and auto gap collapses instead of going negative like space-between. New frames get it automatically; existing frames stay on the legacy version until you upgrade, with a revert option through January 2027.

A really interesting look at modern CSS patterns that 37signals use in Campfire, Writebook, and Fizzy. No Tailwind, no build process, and lots of cutting-edge CSS with good browser support — custom properties (variables), native nesting, container queries, the :has() selector, CSS Layers for managing specificity, color-mix() for dynamic color manipulation, and clamp(), min(), max() for responsive sizing without media queries.