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Can Figma render stroke shadows inside a closed path?

  • June 22, 2026
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Uhl
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Sanity check before I submit this as a bug or feature request:

  • Is there an easy, non-destructive way to make Figma show drop shadows on the inside of a closed path, like a circle?

I don’t want to use Outline Stroke since that’s destructive. I’m trying to keep it as a normal editable circle and have it behave like it does in apps like Sketch or Affinity Designer, where a drop shadow on a stroke renders on both sides of the path.

Same editable circle, inside stroke, and drop shadow setup. Figma doesn’t render the shadow inside the closed path, while Sketch creates the expected inner-shadow effect without outlining the stroke.

 

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Uhl
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  • June 26, 2026

Since it’s been a minute with no replies, I went ahead and created a feature request.

If you agree, please vote for it here:

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