Hi all,

This has been driving me crazy and I feel like with the new update it has further just muddled my opinion. I’m working within a multi brand design system. One component library, multiple brands with different colours and fonts. (I have thoughts about that but alas I am a lowly designer and not high enough to create change)

Brand switching also became a little easier with variables and tokens, however there is a limit to 4 brands before you need to upgrade your Figma plan which we can’t do.

Since we have more than 4 brands (and type variables are still quite new), what is the best way to do this? We’ve been doing it two ways, either:

1. Create atoms, organism. Use a variant called brand and switch in the main organism


2. Create atoms, and variants within the atoms. Create organism, create brand variant in organism. Use variants in atoms to switch

Either way the main organism has a brand variant. The text/colour styles are linked in the base file, so I suppose the only positive to making variants in the atom level is if there was some change it was be easier to push?

I can’t explain very well so I’ve created an example file of what I mean