Marcin Wichary, Design Manager at Figma, gives an inside look into how selection colors and OpenType support were built.
Tweak the spacing for individual letters, adjust the line height of individual paragraphs, and fine-tune font weights.
A description of how Figma calculates font metrics. Useful mostly for font foundries and type designers.
A description of how Figma calculates font metrics, for font foundries and type designers.
Figma’s Designer Advocate Rogie King continues streaming the process of designing a cocktail recipe app. This part focuses on typography, colors, and style, while Part 3 brings at all together with additional views, prototypes, and transitions.
It’s not as powerful as text on a path in Illustrator, but a great way to curve text upward, downward, or into a circle.
Spelling and grammar checker for Figma. Free for files with fewer than 100 text layers.
Coming in the next release. So happy to see resizing moved to the top level!
We are changing it. This is what the text property panel will look like in the next release :–) pic.twitter.com/H0XhAU39gB
— Rasmus Andersson (@rsms) January 15, 2020
My second plugin got approved just a week ago. Typographer formats text with typographic features traditionally used in fine printing — en- and em-dashes, curly quotes, apostrophes, ellipses, and more.
One of the most epic posts in Figma’s archive, diving deep into the history of leading and line height in traditional printing, desktop publishing, and on the web. It explains why Figma works with type the way it does.
My first plugin for Figma just got released! Proper Title Case formats headlines and titles based on style guides from APA, The Chicago Manual of Style, and modern conventions. I realized that I need this while working on a landing page with a bunch of misformatted titles and seeing that the built-in Title Case was too primitive.