LocaleProof
Jul 9, 2026 · via hackernews.com
Figma plugin that flags text overflow caused by translated string expansion.
Internationalization bugs are common and costly; catching text overflow before handoff saves developer rework and prevents broken layouts in localized products.
LocaleProof is a Figma plugin that simulates how your UI copy behaves when translated into other languages, flagging text layers that overflow their containers under locale-specific string expansion. It targets a genuinely painful blind spot in design workflows: English copy is almost always shorter than its German, Finnish, or Portuguese equivalent, and most designers don't find out until engineering flags it in QA.
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