#Fill & Stroke
Percent perfect gradient styles
While this is still a hack, I didn’t realize that a big nudge value affects gradient stops. Good to know!
Non Boring Gradients
Cool plugin by Tom Quinonero for creating gradients through color spaces like LCH and ZYX with non-linear curves. There are so many cool use cases for color spaces like LCH — it’s a real pity that they’re not a standard part of Figma.
Outliner
A Node package that converts SVG strokes to outlined fills as a post-export process. Useful if you want to manipulate color attributes in code.
Chromatic Figma
Chromatic Figma lets you use other color spaces than RGB, such as Lab and Lch, to create good-looking and perceptually uniform gradients and color scales. Recently, I had to dive deep into color spaces and built my own tool while creating an accessible color palette at work, so it’s nice to find a plugin that can be used in less demanding situations.Smarter default colors
Default Pencil and text colors are now smarter. When you draw or type, they are now black or white, depending on the background. Miggie shows this behavior in action.Cropping images
Luis shows a few ways to crop images.Copying individual properties
How to copy and paste an individual property for color or an effect.
Mesh Gradient
This is epic! One less reason to use Illustrator. “Mesh Gradient generates a gradient image with an underlying 2d mesh, and lets you edit the vertices & edges of the mesh to get the perfect gradient look.”Using stroke dash for pixel-perfect intervals
Really smart solution! “This trick uses the dash/gap length to calculate exact degree marks. This lightweight approach makes it easy to store all of the information for interval marks in a single stroke.”
How to make dotted lines for illustrations
Come for the tip, stay for a beautiful demo.
Image Tracer
Image Tracer traces black and white bitmap images and turns them into a vector layer.
Use CSS color names in Figma
A quick tip from Figma Designer Advocate Anthony DiSpezio. (While on topic, read the story behind color named “rebeccapurple”.)
Demo of Variable-Width Stroke plugin
Figma55 recorded a short demo of the recently released plugin by Figma cofounder Evan Wallace.
Variable-Width Stroke
The plugin adds support for variable-width strokes. Made by Evan Wallace, a co-founder of Figma. (Hopefully, this is just a sign that native support is coming to the app soon!)
Animate Angular gradient strokes
And another tip from Miguel for making simple animated spinners.Easing Gradients
Bézier and step easing for gradient fills. Highly useful for creating smooth gradients.Filter
Over 30 filters for raster images.