Figma's New Text Wrap Styles Kill a Manual QA Step

Figma added two new text wrap styles on 14 August 2026: Balance and Pretty, mirroring the CSS properties text-wrap balance and text-wrap pretty that browsers have supported for a while. Balance evens out line lengths across a headline or button label so you don't get one long line sitting above one short, orphaned word. Pretty avoids leaving a single word stranded on the last line of a paragraph. Both can be set per layer, per text style, or per paragraph.

For years, fixing an orphaned word in a headline meant manually forcing a line break and hoping nobody changed the copy afterwards. That's now a toggle instead of a task, and it's one of the more useful recent examples of a design tool catching up to what CSS has quietly been able to do for a while.

The bigger point is what this signals about design and code parity. Every time a layout property in Figma starts behaving exactly like its CSS equivalent, the gap between what a designer specifies and what a developer has to translate by hand gets a little smaller. Worth switching on by default for any headline or button label in an active design system.