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This issue is rich in code generation tools! A new plugin transforming design components into React, Vue, or HTML components. The author provides some context and explains how it works in the article “Introducing Figma to React”.

Font Fascia

List all font families and styles used in a document, and see where exactly they are used. I found this plugin really useful while working on the recent project — first, when switching to a different typeface, and later while reducing the number of webfonts in a project.

Rogie: Preserve icon colors when you swap out icons

Using a Union boolean operator to preserve colors is a mind-blowing hack! 🤯

Here it is. A workaround for your buttons to preserve icon colors when you swap out icons.

This has been another #TotallyRadFigmaTip from ya boi.

Here's the @Figmadesign file: https://t.co/USmdie8ldt #figmatips #figmatip pic.twitter.com/bueqfLyVFS
— ˗ˏˋrogieˎˊ (@rogie) October 30, 2020

Color Picker Update

You can now type CSS color names into the color picker. Here is a good demo.

Desktop App: Better Copy as PNG

“Copy as PNG” now has a keyboard shortcut (⌘⇧C or Ctrl+Shift+C) and defaults to 2x resolution.

Using Real Data in Figma

Jacob used Google Sheets Sync plugin to fill his designs with real medicine names while designing an online pharmacy that delivers NHS prescription medicine.

Improve Your Design Handoff + Free Figma Template

“There are tons of tools and platforms available that ease out the design handoff. To maintain a smooth design handoff, both designers and developers must take place into the process. Here are some tips for the designers and developers on how to improve the design handoff.”

Why Motion Matters in Product Design

Design Lead Gabriela Schmitz from LottieFiles gave a talk at Figma Meetup. If you didn’t try it yet, Lottie has a popular plugin for Figma.

Issue #25
Oct 18, 2020
#Animation
#Lottie

Adding hover states

Rogie shows how to add a hover state and make nav component instances inherit all main component triggers.

Adding hover states in @figmadesign.

✨Bonus: Nav component instances inherit all main component triggers. I loved when I learned this. #FigmaTips https://t.co/3l7bBAmYKZ pic.twitter.com/rEyIj5DuTF
— ˗ˏˋrogieˎˊ (@rogie) October 9, 2020

The Forge — Type Foundries Archive

The Forge is a curated collection of premium font foundries. They provide hundreds of high-quality typefaces as downloadable trial fonts for testing.

In the File: Building a Design System Around Collaboration, Not Components

It’s all too easy to focus your design system on the perfect component, missing out on the aspect that’ll ensure your success – collaboration. Join Zalando’s Louise From and Julia Belling to understand how they created, educated, and scaled their internal design system.

Setting and maintaining consistent space between items with the new Auto Layout

Designer Advocate Joey Banks shows a preview of what’s coming in November. Can’t wait!

Cannot wait for everyone to experience the new Auto Layout features that are coming soon to @figmadesign! Setting and maintaining consistent space between items, like the tabs in a navigation bar, has become so much easier! ↔️📏 pic.twitter.com/1H8WmwkLb1
— Joey Banks (@joeyabanks) September 21, 2020

Level Up Your Design Documentation With a Design Deck

A new video and free Figma template from Femke. “Impactful designers are great at communicating design decisions and documenting design process. This is the deck to level up your communication and documentation process.”

Figma Is Proving to Be the Essential Design Tool of COVID-19

Figma is a 2020 Innovation by Design winner in User Experience category. Fast Company credits it, at least partially, with enabling companies to work remotely. “Figma has become the virtual whiteboard of the pandemic.”

When Fonts Fall

Marcin Wichary digs into how font fallback works. As always, his post is a deep dive into the topic. Highly recommend!

Prepare for Variants

While feature introducing Variants of the same component is currently in beta, this help article provides recommendations on how to prepare for its release in November.

Six Integrations to Help Your Product Team Collaborate in Figma

Figma added two new integrations — one for keeping designs up-to-date in GitLab issues, and another for converting mockups into web pages with Maker. This article talks about some recently-launched integrations to help your product team collaborate in Figma.

Issue #24
Oct 4, 2020
#App Updates

#Features