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I work in Figma every day, often juggling multiple brands at once. One challenge I keep running into is the lack of Pantone color referencing when using variables.

Our organization recently shifted completely from Adobe to Figma and Affinity. While the transition has been great overall, our team still struggles with referencing work in Figma since we can’t easily reference Pantone colors within the system library.

I get that Figma is primarily web-design focused, but there’s a huge opportunity to expand into print and editing features, think brochures, magazines, etc. Even something as simple as linking Pantone references to brand colors in variables would be a real game changer.

Curious if anyone else is facing this, or if Figma has plans in this direction?

You can just name your variables or styles in accordance with your Pantone swatches, right? (i.e. rename your colour variable as 123 C).

Since the colour accuracy itself doesn’t matter as it’s a colour matching system, you can create libraries of ‘Pantones’ and refer to them in variables/styles as needed.

Pantones are licensed so it wouldn’t make sense for Figma to support a native PMS library for the small percentage of users who would benefit.

There looks to be plugins that might be of interest
https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1447117069413678958

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