AMA: Christopher Downer, Designer at Sketch

almost 8 years ago from Christopher Downer, Designin’ Sketch

Jana Grajciarova, almost 8 years ago
Hi Chris,
I am quite new in sketch. I switched from illustrator and I must admit I was a bit hesitant. But now I love it :) . For webdesign this is the tool to use.
I would like to ask you how you deal with padding and margin on text or any component (shape, image,..)? Is there efficient way to do this?
At the moment I am just manually using shapes to measure the spacing, but it would be nice to add the padding/margin value to the textbox or any element generally.
Thank you Jana
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- florian fangohr, almost 8 years ago
  The Sketch constraints plug-in could come in handy here: https://github.com/bouchenoiremarc/Sketch-Constraints https://vimeo.com/140962822
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- Christopher Downer, almost 8 years ago
  I’m glad to hear you’ve made the switch successfully! With any shape selected, hold down Option on your keyboard, and you can see the distances between your selected layer and the nearby bounds of a group or Artboard. Hover over another layer with Option held down and you can measure against that one.
  As a bonus, you can add something like “+20” to the X and Y text boxes to move something by 20 pixels. Hope that helps!
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