Fix Outline Stroke

Honesty. Just when you think you’ve cracked this, Figma does this to basic vector shapes.

I’ve spent quite a while figuring out Figma auto-layout, variables, and components to help me get up to speed on what ‘everyone else uses’ for building design systems.

And I’ve got to say I’m disappointed.

It is way faster to mock up visuals in Illustrator and go straight to Webflow. And you get a website at the end of it.

If this tool produced usable production code, then that would be great.

Otherwise, it feels like yet another time-sink for designers to maintain.

Don’t get me wrong; it’s ideal for designing larger systems with dev teams. And prototyping products collaboratively with clients.

But if you have to switch to other apps to export graphics, this needs to be fixed.

It’s a closed vector path with six points in it. What are you supposed to do?

I’m using streamline icons and this is still relevant to fix. I’m going to use Illustrator to outline and then export my SVGs back into Figma… I’ve always been skeptical on how Figma handles vector paths in general all these years.

How has it been over 3 years and this has no fix? This only started happening recently, and I don’t know why. No, I’m not copying, or transferring vectors from platform to platform. I can create a THREE-point vector and pull the middle handle, and it’ll break. All within Figma, no extra plugins/modifications.

still broken. Figma is this just unfixable? how can it be buried that deep in their backlog to be kicking around 3 years later?

Outline stroke is inconsistent. Sometimes relatively simple paths, especially boolean paths, cause ‘webbing’ to form across various points created by the outliner. Other times, no visible geometry is returned at all. It’s also possible to have any one of these results in the editor but a different one as output from SVG export.

Example file with an invisible, malformed path:

I’ll try to add more examples to this file.

Please fix this! I understand that y’all have to prioritize what you work on, but fixing major issues for basic functions BEFORE pushing out new features might be something to consider, especially when the community is yelling at you about it…

if I am not mistaken it is fixed

Thank you! Works perfect! 💖

you’re a life-saver! thank you!

I’ll be happy if I see this issue gets fixed before I complete my lifetime 😦

Can’t post, but, just use ionicons plugin and add a border to question mark icon