As you may have noticed, I have a soft spot for color tools supporting perception-based color spaces. Taras Brizitsky writes about the plugin Generator that he built with Alex Bourt. It’s a really cool idea and implementation — start with a color, apply a set of visual modifications and conversions, and generate an entire palette from it. Change the starting color or modifiers to update all generated colors. Awesome!

Undo and redo faster in FigJam iPad mobile app: two-finger tap to undo, three-finger tap to redo, and three-finger swipe left/​right to undo/​redo.

Jam seamlessly in FigJam iPad mobile app with Observation mode and Spotlight.

Find more stickers by right-clicking on one to reveal a link to the parent library.

Now you can use copy and paste to quickly replace image fills in FigJam.

Experience a more responsive Apple pencil when you’re using FigJam on iPad mobile app.

Easily size shapes to the same dimensions using new guidelines to match height and width.

Old news for our readers ;-) Hover over stamps to see who left them.

Stay in the diagram flow, with Connector tool (X) now persisting by default; hit Esc or V to return to the Move tool.

Create shapes and stickies faster with new auto-create prompts at the top, bottom, left, and right.

Another personal favorite! 📐 Connectors will automatically straighten when objects look center aligned — no more wonky lines!

Stay in the loop on notifications when you’re in the desktop app, with a new notification bell that lives in your menu bar. Install or update the beta app to the latest version.

Search preview now includes recent searches and a list view shows file owners.

Text alignment shortcuts (⌘-⌥-L for left, ⌘-⌥-T for center, ⌘-⌥-R for right) also work when you apply them inside the text box.

Navigate to links in comments without the interruption of an interstitial.

No more group/​align/​ungroup — quickly align objects as a temporary group by holding Shift while pressing alignment buttons. (Option/Alt also seems to work.)

Retain formatting, including bullets and text styles, when pasting between text nodes.

Not mentioned in the blog post, but a very timely and important update!

Get more efficient in your selection — if a top-level frame is selected, Figma will now select any subsequent top-level frames registered.

Annotation is a lot smoother with Pencil strokes no longer getting clipped or disturbing Auto Layout in frames. See also Marcin Wichary’s short thread on how they got to this solution.