Stretchy text: implement a max font size

[annezazu]

What problem does this address?

Currently, if you have one character in a heading for stretchy text, the heading is huge, without a way to change it (font size controls are gone with stretchy text as that would defeat the purpose)):

What is your proposed solution?

Consider adding a max font size control that's ideally visible. There's already a version of this with fluid typography in the overall Styles > Typography controls.

[jorgefilipecosta]

Hi @annezazu, thank you for reporting this.
We previously had a lower maximum (600) that avoided this issue, but it was increased to 2400 following a conversation with @iamtakashi and @henriqueiamarino. The reason for this change was that a lower maximum makes fit text appear broken on larger screens, where users expect the text to continue growing to fill the available space. Having a max makes users think it does not grow more, there is space. This is especially noticeable in scenarios where people use fit text specifically to scale content to match their screen size, regardless of how large it is.
I guess now that we are back to having a fit text toggle in the inspector sidebar this issue is not as critical given that there is always a way to disable?

[iamtakashi]

Yes, we had a situation where we wanted a few-letter word to be full-width, so we asked to dial up the max size.

I agree with @jorgefilipecosta, we now have the Fit Text toggle in the Typography panel in the sidebar, I think it's easy to disable it if the context is not suitable for it.

[annezazu]

Got it! Thanks for the broader context. I can see why it's implemented the way it is in that case. Let's close this out.