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Molly explains how to preserve color and style overwrites when building an icon library.

Molly points to an unobvious benefit of using variables instead of styles for colors — de-scoping, or setting groups of colors to only appear as fill/​stroke options for certain types of objects.

You can now download your prototype or slide deck to view or present offline.

When working in a branch, if you’ve updated variable fields — like scope, code syntax, or publishing settings — Figma will now clearly list those changes in branch review and flag any conflicts between the variables in your branch and those in the main branch.

The prototyping and variables modals are now resizable, giving you more screen space for setting up prototyping interactions and viewing the details for multiple actions.

So much goodness in this update! 1) Figma now detects when a new font was installed locally and automatically adds it to the font picker, no refresh is required. 2) The missing fonts modal now groups font families for faster searching and lets you replace the font of a single text node, entire page, or all pages. 3) Set the color, shape (solid, dotted, or wavy), and thickness of text underlines. Plus, choose the underline offset from text and whether it skips ink. 4) Mix and match paragraph spacing or indentation in the same node.

Inga Hampton from Raycast shared a time-lapse of a complex model made entirely in Figma.

A step-by-step video tutorial on how to create a laser beam effect.

Kudos to Oğuz for his patience while creating such a sleek and advanced animation with just a Figma prototype. That’s a lot of frames to connect.

Beautiful radial navigation made by Mark Bennett.

Rogie is just showing off with this beautiful artwork.

Misha Frolov provides an overview of how the new AI tools change the workflow.

Turns out, you can copy text styles from the selected text!

Vijay always finds the most remarkable applications for the new Figma features. This one uses the new duplicate and rotate.

The beta of UI3 is now available to everyone. Check out this list of changes made after hearing the feedback.

In the past, the file browser and the community files required different thumbnail aspect ratios. Now, it’s standardized at 16:9 across Figma files, FigJam, and Figma Slides.

Figma added iPhone 16 (including Pro, Pro Max, and Plus), Apple Watch Series 10 (42mm and 46mm), and Android (Compact, Medium, Expanded) to the Frames menu. If you need vector iPhone 16 device frames for the prototyping, Keeyen published the community file with different models and colors.

Joey Banks shows one of the newly announced features. When objects are duplicated, rotated, and then duplicated again, Figma will continue that rotation with subsequent copies of your object.

Inga Hampton, Product Designer & Illustrator at Raycast, does pure sorcery in Figma.

My personal Figma account is on UI3, but I spend most of my days in a work account stuck on UI2. Surely I’m not the only one in this boat who found switching between two UIs quite distracting. Can’t wait to start using UI3 in my daily work.