Has anyone found a good way to work with fonts that scale with the viewport width (vw) in Figma? I'm trying to figure out the best way to handover Figma files for dev. with the vw-scaling.
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Figma still doesn't support vw/vh but if it helps 1vw is equal to 1% of the screen width. Not ideal, but if you calculate the percent of the width of your text to the width of your screen that should give your dev a general starting point - though they will need to fine tune it
Thanks Molly. You're totally right... it will need some fine tuning regardless of the approach, I think. Maybe it's actually most effective to code some simple prototypes a proof-of-concept. I would just rather keep it in a Figma system approach. 😅
Even when I'm developing my own design and know exactly what the viewport *should* be, it still takes some testing and adjustment to ensure that scale works across all viewports/resolutions/etc.
I think giving a starting value and expecting the developer to adjust as necessary is not unreasonable! If you're looking to represent it across desktop and mobile screens try to keep that scale within your designs and make it very clear if + when the scale changes for the design