Dive into this easy guide on crafting responsive text styles in Figma. Pick up handy tips and clever tricks to ensure your designs look great on any device.
Designing responsive text styles in Figma is key to crafting adaptable user interfaces that shine on all sorts of devices and screen sizes. Achieving this requires a mix of techniques: auto-layout, relative sizing, constraints, and scalable typographic principles. Nailing these methods helps maintain consistency and flexibility across diverse breakpoints and environments. From web to mobile and other digital platforms, grasping how to make text responsive keeps your designs functional and looking good. Jump into the essential steps and best practices for responsive typography in Figma.
Fire up Figma and start a new file by hitting the "+" button or picking "New File" from the file menu. Easy peasy.
Grab the Text Tool (shortcut T) and click anywhere on the canvas to start typing. Just like that, you've got a new text layer.
Click on your text layer. Over on the right-hand side, you'll see the properties panel. Tweak the font, size, line height, and other settings until it looks just right. When you're happy with it, click the four-dot icon next to the font-size dropdown to create a text style. Give it a name that makes sense.
Select your text layer again and hit the "Auto Layout" button in the properties panel. This will make your text adjust its size based on the content and constraints you set. Pretty cool, huh?
Now that Auto Layout is on, you can tweak the padding, spacing, alignment, and resizing. Set “Hug contents” for both vertical and horizontal resizing so the text adjusts based on how much you type.
Press F to create a frame and draw it around your text layer. Make sure the text layer is inside this frame. Set the frame's constraints to "Scale" or "Resize" to control how the text behaves when you resize the frame.
Click on the text layer and check out the constraints and resizing options in the right-hand properties panel. Set constraints to match how you want the text to respond. For example, use "Left & Right" for horizontal alignment or "Top & Bottom" for vertical alignment. This way, the text resizes or repositions just right.
Time to test! Resize the frame and see how the text adjusts. Make sure all constraints and auto-layout settings are working as they should. Tweak anything that needs fixing.
Use this text style and auto-layout settings on other text layers and components in your design. This keeps everything looking consistent and responsive. Shared styles are your friend here.
Once you're happy with everything, save your Figma file and share it with your team. Use the "Share" button in the upper-right corner to get feedback and make further refinements.
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