.@mwichary Usually a big fan of your work, but the more I think about this decision, the less I understand it. I do get that handoff (for web projects) becomes easier when Figma behaves just like CSS does. … (1/5)https://twitter.com/figmadesign/status/1121447354194907144 …
Hi, thanks for writing. Hard for me to respond with anything new that wasn’t already in the blog post, but tell me how this makes things harder? Ideally with specific examples, if possible?
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Imagine you have a piece of text that you want to place on a colored background, with equal spacing to all sides. With Half-leading the spacing is not (n)px on all sides anymore, but (n)px on the left and right side and (n)px - (lineheight/2) on the top and the bottom.
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The previous way of handling line-height in Figma would not have been optimal as well, because of the leading below the last line. This is where the the comparison to handset type is handy: you wouldn’t insert leading underneath the last line in your composing stick …
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Is it a good idea to let the quality of our tools be dictated by one (bad) implementation? (3/5)
Also, isn’t that what padding is for? Half-leading makes it much harder to apply precise padding
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