#Fill & Stroke
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.
Here is a #FigmaTip showing you how to make dotted lines for your @figmadesign illustrations. ✏️
— Mirko Santangelo (@mirkosantangelo) January 29, 2021
Open the Advanced Stroke panel, set the Cap to Round, then add a 0.1 Dash and tweak the dots spacing using Gap.
Happy Friday! ☺️ pic.twitter.com/M5NomG6VLU
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”.)
Quick @figmadesign tip for some www nostalgia - you can use CSS color names as hex values in Figma #FigmaTiphttps://t.co/DqCiMhbUtr
— Anthony DiSpezio (@adispezio) January 14, 2021
My favorite is "burlywood," what's yours?! pic.twitter.com/Iz9Ta5zNwW
Demo of Variable-Width Stroke plugin
Figma55 recorded a short demo of the recently released plugin by Figma cofounder Evan Wallace.
🎉🎉 Figma55 is one year old! 🎉🎉
— Figma:55 (@figma55) January 16, 2021
To bring in the new year, here's a video covering an often missed Adobe Illustrator feature that you can now do in Figma, thanks to @evanwallace's Variable Width Stroke plugin pic.twitter.com/vdNmwQ3gIi
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
Figma @figmadesign protip: You can animate Angular gradients strokes. Make a simple loading animation by rotating the angle of the Angular gradient on a shape's stroke.
— miggi from figgi (@miggi) December 10, 2020
s/o to @annehelliott for the question & @BenMendelsohn for the rectangle. pic.twitter.com/aXe1y2DAak
Easing Gradients
Filter
Over 30 filters for raster images.
6 Steps to Make Excellent Blurred Background
Rogie: Preserve icon colors when you swap out icons
Here it is. A workaround for your buttons to preserve icon colors when you swap out icons.
— ˗ˏˋrogieˎˊ (@rogie) October 30, 2020
This has been another #TotallyRadFigmaTip from ya boi.
Here's the @Figmadesign file: https://t.co/USmdie8ldt#figmatips #figmatip pic.twitter.com/bueqfLyVFS
Color Picker Update
You can now type CSS color names into the color picker. Here is a good demo.
Improved Reordering in the Properties Panel
A vector stroke marker pack for Figma
🔥 NOW AVAILABLE 🔥
— DANN ツ (@DannPetty) September 17, 2020
A Vector Stroke Marker Pack for @figmadesign!
✔️ 100% Vector
✔️ Fully Scalable
✔️ Fully Customizable
✔️ Full Alphabet
✔️ Numbers 0-9
✔️ Made with Posca + Copic Markers
✔️ How many strokes? A LOT!https://t.co/vz9UcTzoZw pic.twitter.com/daCAvAFrvN
Yummygum: Copy and paste individual style properties between layers
This is a huge time saver. Can’t believe I never tried this before.
TIL in @figmadesign you can select individual style properties and Copy (⌘C), Cut (⌘X) and Paste (⌘V) them onto other layers#figma #figmatip
— Yummygum (@yummygum) April 14, 2020
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Filter
Apply over 30 custom filters to raster images.
Adjustments
Tweak hue, saturation, and lightness values of multiple selected objects at once. (Also, how could I not mention a plugin with an icon like this?!)
Steve Schoger: Strokes don’t export properly when you have mixed caps and joins
Good to know, I faced this issue a few times before and chose to outline strokes, but this is not always possible or ideal.
Figure this Figma exporting issue out! It doesn't export properly when you have mixed caps and joins.
— Steve Schoger (@steveschoger) January 14, 2020
cc/ @figmadesign https://t.co/gQWsaluzzX pic.twitter.com/zP3pE770HD