I look forward to the next release of Supa Palette with support for OKLCH and reusable configs!

Mike Bespalov is cooking something dope. The glass effect is very cool, but I love the displacement effect applied to the text even more. The plugin is not out yet, but it’s coming soon — can’t wait to try it out!

Brett from Designjoy shows how to achieve a cool visual effect with a Progressive Blur plugin.

The official Grammarly plugin: ​“Create impactful, mistake-free content faster with your trusted AI writing partner available directly in Figma. Grammarly helps teams meet their goals while staying on-brand and in compliance.”

That’s a pretty cool demo of how powerful the Generator plugin is. Impressive!

Christine Vallaure doesn’t like to rely on plugins too much, but in this article, she shares ​“some little helpers that I wouldn’t want to do without.” Some are time-tested tools, but others were completely new to me.

In case you said goodbye to Dev Mode last week, Molly Hellmuth recommends a few plugins to help fill in the gap — Annotate It, Print Variables, Frame History, EightShapes Specs, and Handoff Notes.

Molly spotted a nice improvement to opening a plugin from the Community — now they can be opened in a recent file instead of creating a new empty file in Drafts.

It all started with Rahul Chakraborty’s question about a particular illustration technique used by Sketch in their blog. Two days later, Isaac Miller built the Extrusion Effect web app to generate cool extruded illustrations, and Anvesh Dunna turned this technique into a Figma plugin — hopefully, it will be available in the Community later this week. That’s why I love the design community!

A cool technique of using randomizer plugins like Random Swap Variants and Variants Randomizer to generate a set of unique illustrations from predefined components.

A cool tutorial on creating an animated card background using Rogie​’s popular Noise & Texture plugin — fast-forward to the end to see the final result.

Some great recommendations for quality unitasker plugins in Fons Mans’s comments.

Great update to the OkColor plugin letting you specify both absolute and relative chroma in colors.

“Good typography is good design. This collection of plugins for Figma will help you to improve the typography in your design.” Font Fascia and Fonts Changer are two of my favorites on this list!

At Smashing Meets Figma event, Christine Vallaure showed how to add real data to your Figma designs, and various ways to include Google Sheets and API data via Kernel.

A preview of the new ray tracer plugin currently in development by Yi Shen. Some of the examples are pretty wild!

Great video from Chad on a conversion technique I described above. Recommend watching this video before you embark on a journey to update your color system.

The first-ever demo of a new plugin by Diagram. Can’t wait for it to become a part of the editor!

Developer Advocates Jake and Akbar made a couple of sample plugins for importing/​exporting variables and converting existing color styles to variables. (Also, Ryhan provides an interesting insight into how Figma migrated from color styles to variables in their internal design system.)

A solid list of new recommendations from the ADPList.