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April 19, 2024
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I hope that we can adjust the transparency when using colors semantically inherited from variable color palettes

  • April 19, 2024
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I’m thrilled that Figma has finally completed the last piece of the design variables puzzle. The addition of typography and gradients allows us to fully implement system-level variable design. However, I have a small issue. Although we can now use variables for gradient and shadow colors, within design tokens, if our color palettes haven’t defined transparency, we can’t modify the transparency when inheriting colors semantically. This forces us to create new color palettes specifically for transparency, which is a huge waste of time and meaningless work, especially since we often need to adjust transparency when using gradients and shadows. Therefore, I hope we can adjust transparency while inheriting colors from the color palettes.

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Franni
New Participant
April 19, 2024

Hey! Some people are “fighting” for this feature since a while in this thread: please vote on it 🙂 Add way to change opacity for color variables alias, fills, strokes, etc

Gayani_S
Figmate
Community Support
April 24, 2024