How do you scale font size when resizing a symbol in Sketch?

7 years ago from Ali Stone, Director at Love the Craft

So I know all the new symbol stuff is great in Sketch. But I have come across a problem for me with the new system, when I resize my symbol in sketch the font size will stay the same. I know this is good for responsive elements, but it's not great for many instances of the same element at different sizes.

Can anyone please help?

Also do those with a magic mouse find that they end up zooming in and out a lot when holding command to select nested elements, or is that just me...

8 comments

K B, almost 6 years ago
You can do this with Cmd+K (or clicking Scale on the toolbar)
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- Pete Nawara, over 5 years ago
  Oh wow... This is a great tip. Thanks!
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ahder junior, almost 6 years ago
until now dynamic text when symbolized doesn't work i think
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Sarah Grot, over 6 years ago
I have the same issue with resizing symbols
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Giovanni Frigo, 7 years ago
Doesn't it scale if you use the "Scale" tool on the top bar, instead of resizing it by dragging a corner of the element?
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- Özgür Atmaca, 6 years ago
  If the object is a Symbol, the scale won't work.
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  - Sean Smyth, over 5 years ago
    It does now!
    It's a bit weird, using CMD+T and scaling a symbol using the handles doesn't scale the text.
    If you click on "Scale" in the menu and input the size you'd like, the text gets scaled.
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    - Thomas Michael Semmler, over 4 years ago
      but, if you change the text-style in the override, even if you have scaled the original text-layer symbol, it snaps back to its original scaling again.
      0 points

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