Figma Adds Pretty and Balance for Cleaner Auto Layout Typography.

Figma is giving designers more control over an easily overlooked part of interface design: where text breaks. The company has released Pretty and Balance, two text wrapping options for auto layout that can prevent awkward final words and produce more evenly distributed lines.

The update is available now, according to Figma’s announcement on LinkedIn. It is a small addition compared with the company’s recent AI and workspace changes, but one that could remove a recurring source of manual cleanup from responsive components, cards and marketing layouts.

Pretty and Balance address related typography problems, but they do not produce the same result. Pretty focuses on the end of a text block, while Balance considers how copy is distributed across multiple lines.

• Pretty avoids leaving a single stranded word on the final line of a paragraph. This can make body copy, descriptions and compact interface text look more deliberate.
• Balance distributes text more evenly between lines. It is particularly relevant to headings and short passages where one unusually long or short line can disrupt the visual shape of a component.

Traditional text wrapping generally fills each line until the available width runs out. That behavior is predictable, but it can create undesirable compositions as the width of an auto layout frame changes. A heading might occupy nearly the full width on its first line and leave only two words beneath it; a paragraph might end with one isolated word.

Designers often fix those cases by resizing a text box, editing the copy or inserting a manual line break. Those workarounds can become fragile inside reusable components. A forced break that looks correct on a desktop card may look wrong when the same component is resized, translated or populated with different content.

Pretty and Balance give Figma a way to handle those decisions at the wrapping level. Pretty is the more restrained option because it targets a specific problem at the end of a paragraph. Balance is more visibly compositional, redistributing words to create lines with more similar lengths.

The practical benefit is less about making one static mockup look polished and more about preserving typography across flexible layouts. Auto layout is commonly used to create components that expand with their content, including buttons, notification banners, pricing cards and onboarding panels. Text is often the least predictable element in those systems because its shape changes with width and copy length.

For small teams building landing pages or product interfaces, better wrapping could reduce the number of breakpoint-specific adjustments needed before handoff. It could also make components more resilient when non-designers replace placeholder text with production copy. The feature does not eliminate the need to review line length, hierarchy or spacing, but it gives designers two additional behaviors before resorting to fixed dimensions and manual breaks.

The release also fits Figma’s broader effort to make its editing environment more capable without pushing every improvement through generative AI. Recent updates have ranged from a redesigned properties panel and annotations for Figma Make to renaming projects as folders and adding nesting. Pretty and Balance are narrower, but they improve a task designers encounter in almost every interface.

The best choice will depend on the content. Pretty is likely to suit paragraphs where preserving a natural rag matters, while Balance is better suited to short headlines and display text where the overall silhouette is part of the design. Teams should still test both options with real copy and at the widths their components will use.

What is Figma Pretty and Balance?

Pretty and Balance are two text wrapping options for auto layout in Figma. Pretty prevents a single word from being stranded on the last line, while Balance distributes text more evenly across lines.

When are Pretty and Balance available in Figma?

Figma says both options are available now. The announcement did not specify a staged rollout or a separate release date.

Which wrapping option should designers use?

Pretty is intended for text where the main concern is avoiding a lone final word. Balance is designed for text, particularly short headings, that benefits from lines with more even lengths. The result depends on the copy and available width, so designers should review the behavior across component sizes.