Plugins

Trim text elements by nesting them within frames to remove space above capital letters and below the baseline. This removes the bounding box and makes text behave as every other element in your layout. See also this thread by Roman Shamin on how font metrics leading to equal space above and below the text can make digital design and development easier.

Wire Box converts your high fidelity designs into low fidelity wireframes. I couldn’t see why this plugin exists until hearing about other people’s struggles with providing feedback on a ​“perfect” prototype made with a design system.

Generate all possible instances for your components, including every combination of variants and component properties, all in a tidy labeled table.

I was looking for a plugin to clean up my file and convert all color values to matching color styles, and this plugin got the job done perfectly. Thanks to Dave Kover for the recommendation!

A new gradient generator inspired by Apple’s gradients.

Interesting plugin from Mike Wilson for writing documentation and attaching it to your components.

A new plugin with 120+ high-quality free illustrations by Vijay Verma.

I’ve shared a video preview of this generative art plugin in Issue #70, and now it’s available in a public beta. I played with Generater for a little bit and it was a lot of fun! Looking forward to using it on one of the projects.

A widget to seamlessly document changes in your Figma files and libraries.

The best looking widget out there.

One of my favorite widgets is now available for Figma. See the video demo.

Ballpark is a new app from folks at Marvel providing a fast way to capture high-quality feedback on questions, marketing copy, designs, and Figma prototypes using tasks and video.

Free Google Font pairing and color palette suggestions.

Stark — a popular accessibility plugin — released an all-new version with better organization and a simplified UI.

”Loreum ipusm for logos. Insert dummy logos of companies into your Figma or FigJam file quickly. The plugin also includes 194 flags of countries as well as popular brand logos.” Don’t miss Vijay’s Twitter thread of a story and details behind this plugin.

Aninix is a powerful UI animation plugin for Figma: ​“Easily create motion design systems, export animations for promos, and provide animation inspector for developers.”

Prototyper is a new plugin from the team behind Automator, offering powerful prototyping with JavaScript right in Figma, similar to the old days of Framer Classic. A really powerful combo for exploring ideas and building prototypes in higher fidelity.

Cool update to a LottieFiles plugin: ​“Instantly change the colors of your animation. Apply your own custom colors, or try out our carefully curated preset color palettes.”

Vijay Verma’s massive collection of 3D icons is now available as a free plugin.

Supa Palette is an all-in-one palette editor and generator. Love that it supports modern color modes like LCH and Oklab, as well as correcting lightness for balanced palettes.