Plugins

An early beta of a new APCA contrast checker plugin from my friends at Evil Martians. Polychrom displays the contrast level between the selection and an automatically detected layer background or two selected layers with solid fills. It also offers text size recommendations for regular and bold font styles, following the APCA contrast-to-font table. Earlier this year I was looking for an APCA contrast checker to recommend in my Config talk and found all existing options lacking, so really happy to see this team building it!

Select two vector shapes and specify how many steps to create between them.

I’ve been using it for years but never shared it before! Great for putting any objects or text on a path.

This plugin made my head spin: ​“Make procedural geometry, generate dynamic text, design color systems with logic and mathematical precision. Explore endless variations, and automate things that would be too tedious or even impossible to do by hand.”

Zen Keys is a new plugin from Corey Lee that extends the Quick Actions menu to provide more keyboard accessibility for Figma features that don’t have dedicated shortcuts. Spend less time reaching for your mouse and lean into Figma zen mode with keyboard actions. (Something is cooking with the Quick Action bar, isn’t it?)

Jambot is a free widget from Figma to interact with ChatGPT right in FigJam. Use it to create visual mindmaps, take a multi-threaded approach to brainstorming, or generate ideas with teammates and ChatGPT on the same canvas. Quite amazing that it was born during last month’s Maker Week and is already live!

During Maker Week, Rogie built a handy plugin for attaching files to the Figma document for hand-off. Great tool for sharing fonts, high-resolution pictures, or other assets with developers.

A preview of the design lint plugin for identifying and fixing issues like missing tokens or styles.

Use Stable Diffusion to create unique AI images for your designs without ever leaving Figma with this text-to-image plugin. Won the ​“3rd Product of the Day” at ProductHunt on August 1st.

A new plugin from the Tokens Studio: ​“Already have your variables set up and want to bulk apply them to your work? You can swap styles with variables or apply variables that match raw number values to elements in any file with access to your variables collections!” See also the walkthrough video.

I shared a sneak peek of this plugin by Yi Shen in issue #123, and now it’s available in the Community: ​“This plugin converts text and vector nodes into 3D models with just one click! The converted models will be automatically placed and rendered with GPU ray-tracing. You can use it to render a nice 3D icon, text, or any other 3D-style images without being a 3D specialist.”

Codejet converts designs to production-ready code. Create a project in Figma, and Codejet will convert it into React and TypeScript code. Was voted Product Hunt’s Product of the Day on July 13th.

A new plugin by Jan Toman: ​“Export variables from one file and import them to another. It’s great for migrating libraries, or when you downloaded a library from the community and you’d like to import variables to your existing design system.”

“Figlet is a sandbox-like environment with a built-in editor that allows you to play with and learn how to use the Figma developer platform right inside Figma.” It’s made by Gavin McFarland, author of the popular Table Creator plugin, and funded by Figma Creator Fund.

Find Variables plugin by Daniel Destefanis helps you find what variables are being used in your file and easily select the layers using them.

A few new plugins for converting styles to variables came out last week, and I’m still trying to pick a favorite. The best part of Styles to Variables Converter is that after creating variables it updates existing styles to use them, so if you delete or detach styles objects will fall back to variables. A slightly more popular Styles to Variables plugin doesn’t seem to do this yet. I also wish these plugins let me map styles to existing variables, or at least specify a target collection.

Linear wins the most over-the-top plugin page award. The new plugin enables designers and engineers to collaborate seamlessly without the need to switch tools or context by creating and linking to issues directly from Figma, navigating design tasks in context, and collaborating across teams and tools.

A new version of the popular plugin for converting any website into a fully editable Figma design. What’s new: bulk import of multiple pages at once, importing multiple viewports at once, showing light and dark themes side by side, and even higher quality transformations.

Evan Wallace, a co-founder of Figma, made this niche plugin 4 years ago, and I just discovered it?! ​“This plugin lets you edit the fill rules of a vector object. Fill rules determine which parts of a vector outline are filled. The fill rules have different behavior when a vector outline overlaps. Why is this useful? Certain export formats (e.g. TrueType fonts, Android VectorDrawable) only support the non-zero fill rule. You can use this plugin to manually convert even-odd to non-zero to make the exporters for these formats work.”

“Create beautiful tiny graphs with a couple of clicks. Paste your data from Excel, CSV, JSON, or type it. Use Shuffle to make more variants of your data to explore patterns and get insights.”