Rad product and home page! “ShaderGradient is a design tool to create beautiful moving gradients. Make stunning visuals by adding natural movements and effects to the gradient. It's available on your favorite tools, like Framer, Figma, and React.”

New plugin for working with perceptual color and OKLCH color space! This initial release allows inspecting and manipulating color stops in gradients using the OKLCH color space — pretty useful if you have an existing gradient that needs a little tweaking. Bonus point for providing precise control over color stop positions!

A few good tips on adjusting the color hue, opacity, and evenly distributing color handles.

Fons Mans shows how to create a dreamy multi-color gradient with Figma without relying on any plugins.

Oğuz Yağız Kara shows how setting the color of the transparent gradient stop helps make it softer.

What, an old-school plugin without AI? 🤯 “Dithercore creates cool dithered images reminiscent of '80s and '90s computer graphics. It brings back the primitive technology of early PCs by utilizing pixel patterns and color schemes from that era.“

Effortlessly remove backgrounds or isolate objects using AI.

In this Study Hall, Miggi covers several ways to add/edit images in Figma and demonstrates how to upload a video to use when prototyping or presenting.

Danny Sapio with a few tips on working with paths, anchors, and fills to speed up your drawing workflow in Figma. This article is also available in a video format on YouTube.

A set of unique customizable mesh gradient blends.

The lack of precision in the gradient tool is an old annoyance, but as this tweet grew in popularity I’ve been quietly hoping that maybe the fix would make it to the Little Big Updates. Regardless, the replies provide a ton of smart workaround — distributing stops through double-clicking, nudging stops, using the Precise Gradients plugin, and even looking in the Inspect tab!

This website made my head spin! A new Figma plugin and Framer Component for creating highly customizable beautiful moving gradients.

A new plugin by Vijay Verma: “The plugin utilizes the Metavatar algorithm to create stunning gradient backgrounds in a variety of cool colors. It also has the added feature of adding noise to make the gradients even more visually striking.”

In this tutorial thread, Fons Mans walks through the steps of creating Linear-like gradients. The community file is available as well.

Miggi with two great tips on managing gradients. I wish we didn’t need to resolve to a 100 pixels square hack, but often it gets the job done!

If programming shaders is a bit too much for you, check out this video on how to create an animated mesh gradient in Figma with a combination of a few plugins and built-in tools.

Dan Hollick with a fantastic deep dive on shaders. While this specialized area of graphics programming may seem too niche, shaders have been gaining popularity in UI design for animating gradients and creating cool special effects. In Figma, you can play with shaders inside Rogie’s popular Noise & Texture plugin.

One of my personal favorites 🙌 Organize the gradient panel faster by double-clicking on gradient stops to evenly distribute them.

Miggi shows how to use images as masks.

A nice trick from Gleb on how to create a transparent fill that supports a background blur effect.