Plugins

Automator – the most discussed plugin lately – is now available to the public. For a limited time, it’s $29 per year for personal use. See Issue #52 for some examples of what it can do.

Quickly import and embed PDF files into your FigJam boards.

Generate a random confetti pattern on your canvas.

A new plugin by Framer. You can now copy layers in Figma and paste them directly into Framer to make your Figma projects interactive in just a few steps.

Really cool plugin (currently in beta) for turning frames into components. See a short video demo.

If you’ve ever used my tool Accessible Palette, one of its core features is support for Advanced Perceptual Contrast Algorithm (APCA) — a great alternative to a basic contrast algorithm in WCAG 2 and the current recommendation in WCAG 3 Draft. This plugin is a simple contrast checker using this algorithm and taking into account fonts size as well as background and foreground colors.

Fill-in-the-blank sticky note, where different people can fill out different parts of the sentence. Works great for e.g. ice breakers, user story templates, and critical user journeys.

Warp your designs using Smudge, Twirl, Bulge, Pinch, Arc, Flag, and Free Transform tools. This premium plugin brings the typical warp tools known from other vector apps to Figma.

Grapic is the iPhone app and a FigJam widget that lets you use a real pen, paper, and whiteboards with your remote colleagues, clients, and friends.

A FigJam widget to help your group take turns. Keep track of whose turn it is, who’s already gone, and who’s left.

A lightweight plugin that converts high-fidelity mockups to loading or ​“skeleton” screens.

“Associates colors to styles if it finds matching or very similar ones.”

Design in one theme and automatically switch to other themes within a color system.

While outlining a stroke is a common feature in design tools, I’ve never seen the opposite!

Insert and retain the original resolution of big images, working around Figma’s limitation of 4,096 pixels during imports. Just last week, I had to add a few large screenshots to the project and ended up cutting them down manually in Pixelmator while thinking of building this plugin. Apparently, Yuan Qing Lim had the same idea a while ago!

A new plugin from Gleb Sabirzyanov for getting custom colors from Figma to FigJam.

Mathematically generate beautiful spirographs with the desired shape, color, and stroke width.

Announced at Schema 2021, this is a new tool that helps you visualize Material You’s dynamic color and create a custom Material Design 3 theme. With built-in code export, it’s easy to migrate to Material’s new color system and take advantage of dynamic color. Don’t miss the article Introducing Material Theme Builder.

A Figma plugin allowing you to define & use tokens directly in Figma, including smart aliases for colors, typography, spacing, border radius, etc. Jan Six is also working on the way to sync tokens with a GitHub repository.

Stark’s FigJam widget provides designers, engineers, and product managers role-specific accessibility checklists.