Dear Sketch:

We love your product. It's infinitely better than the expensive, load-heavy, inaccurate Photoshop, which we've struggled with for so many years. Your product has made it a lot easier for us to iterate. It's reduced the amount of time that we have to spend interacting with our tools. That's amazing. We appreciate you, and we think you're doing a really great job. Now, there's this issue with line-height. It's a real pain in the butt. And we'd like to ask you to fix it before you move on to other features. When it comes to features, we're doing just fine with what we have for the moment. Anyway, thank you for listening, and for making such an amazing product, and we're sorry if we got a little screechy. We care about line-height a lot.

Your friends, —DN.

Also that underline option. They need to be able to have the thing customizable.

I wish I had the option to make that thing thicker. Or moved down lower.

Am I right?

It gets gradually worse even. Last few updates made some fonts (Arial, Helvetica Neue, Times New Roman, PT Sans, Verdana to be specific) fail to keep line-height consistent. It's completely bananas.

Just look at this: Notice how text starts falling off the grid immediately more and more.

Okay you say, let's see if changing it a notch down will help. Nope: Now it falls off at the fourth line.

I'm not asking Sketch to replicate line-height behavior in the numbers that will be useful to devs. First, you have different platforms (iOS, Android, WP, Web with all the multitude of browsers) which all treat this stuff differently. So it's not a humble task. But at least keep the fucking line-height consistent. If I set it to something it's supposed to stay so, not to transform to a fucking mess on an odd line.

Khoi Vinh already ranted about it.

Also they got crappy support for mixing typefaces within the same text frame. I ranted to them in customer support Email and they said they're working on it, somehow.

Oh good, I posted this as a bug 1 1/2 year ago with super detailed photos and examples. Never heard back from bohemian and I sort of started to think I was the only one complaining...

GAH! This, this awful turd that's ruining an otherwise great product. Just try and select text when you have a mix of line heights, it's just so frustrating!

All of the typography needs a rethink, bugs, implementation and workflow.

You're not alone. It's super frustrating. We explored a few line-height issues here and found a "solution" for some fonts: https://www.designernews.co/stories/55303-sketch-lineheight-bug

Here's another thread from a few months ago: http://sketchtalk.io/discussion/1544/sketch-3-4-line-height-bug

I emailed support about it, and they said they're working on it...these problems have existed for a long time though so it must be difficult for them to solve.

I would also like it, if I could choose weather guides snap to the line-height-edges or the glyph-edges of the text.

There are so many issues with Sketch - I've lost count. I want to love it like nothing else in this world, but these type issues, live-guide issues, masking issues, aligning issues...resizing issues... Blech! The list goes on. It's absolutely hysterical when I talk to my colleagues about Sketch...they all say the same thing; "I love it! I hate it!"

let's face it, version 3 is much better than 2 - but the Mirror app still isn't working...again...lots of issues that need to be sorted until this app becomes something Adobe will worry about (which I'm sure they are already - and should be). Now let's talk about the new version of Photoshop! - oh wait... another thread!

This issue is killing me. To the point where my project has had to move back to illustrator. It's so bad I would recommend that they release no new feature until it's fixed. Love the app but my projects are type driven...

I have consistently heard (and this applies to me as well) that the issues with how type is rendered is the sole reason it can't be used. So much of design is type, its strange that this is still ignored despite being such a glaring issue.

TLDR; If sketch 4 was just an update that fixed all of the type issues, I'd happily pay

Whilst I find this issue annoying, when I move into code I always manually adjust these settings. I'd understand if it came to print, but as Sketch serves me as a very very high fidelity blueprint, the rest must always be tweaked in css.

I don't work in app development, so can't speak to that, but in web design adjusting line heights is par for the course, no? Designs always look lovely in Sketch, but when I start building them I find that certain things I thought looked good need to be adjusted to suit all the gazillion screen sizes out there. So really this issue becomes a hiccup which I find it simple enough to work around.

It's time to stop complaining about a young and wonderful software developed by a small team that plays in the same league as big evil companies.

Completely agree, it's getting exhausting.

"And how the text sits within the container is another major problem to itself."

+1

We often use Zeplin to export measurements for developers, but since there is no option to have the bounding box be constrained to the text height rather than the line height, they have no way of accurately measuring how many px or dp or whatever is needed between the type and other elements. I would love some better settings here.

Ah, glad that someone said about that! But there is also another major problem related to text line height!

When i use a font and then need to make some changes in the font (f.e. adding some glyphs, yes sometimes i need to do that...) It crushes whole line height of the font completely! That drives me nuts.

I've been able to get around this issue by turning on a grid with my target line-height to manually tweak a piece of text's line-height to match its "real", non-Sketch value (e.g 31.5 approximates 32 for my project's font). I then save these adjusted text/line-height pairs as a text style with the correct name (e.g. 24/32). I only use a handful of line-heights in a given file so it's not hard for me to remember that 31.5 =32. But I'll admit this is pretty hacky and more than once my peers have questioned the decimal specificity of my line-height values.

Good luck with that. Bohemian give a damn about the community. You don't want to know how many bug reports, feature requests and suggestions I've sent them in the last year, but not a single one has been fixed, some of them being there for a long time. But who cares at Bohemian? They don't even reply to my mails andmore ...

Word. They need to move on this sh-t. Figma's a bit better but has it's own quirks.

Agree, this issue is annoying.

Does somebody else get thinner font weights than they're supposed to be on retina? Like when I'm using Gotham book, it looks like light. But when you export it, it will get much fatter. (I'm using a 5k iMac)