FWIW Figma is sensitive to typolinegap

Jacques Le Bailly
Posts: 97
A client asked me to investigate the different behavior of text between Sketch and Figma, when text is centered vertically.
The font I had to test had a typolinegap value set. When I made a quick test version with the value set to zero, all aligned well in both apps.
The font I had to test had a typolinegap value set. When I made a quick test version with the value set to zero, all aligned well in both apps.

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Which apps? Different browsers?
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Offline versions of Sketch and Figma1
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In my experience, Sketch has not the best implementation of typography. If I set any font out of the box (without letter spacing), it looks like it’s ignoring or suppressing some letter spacing and kerning defintions that come with the TTF or OTF. But when you set letter spacing to 0.01, suddenly it kicks in. This is an experience exclusive to Sketch, it is not happening in Adobe or Apple programs.2
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