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I’m working on a 20-page file and often switch between Dark and Light Mode UI, based on how my eyes feel. I’d like to have the ability to change a file’s page color to my preference and apply it across all pages in the Figma file with a simple button. Perhaps a “Apply to All Pages” button in the Page color panel would work. This way, I wouldn’t have to change the default F5F5F5 page background color on each page individually. I also don’t want to control this UI element with a variable (I see that as an option), as I anticipate my developers getting confused when going through my variables and asking: "What is a Page Background, and where is it applied?”

There is inconsistency between what is shown in Figma UI and what is sent in response for Figma file (GET /v1/files/:key - https://www.figma.com/developers/api#get-files-endpoint) related to letter spacing for Typography token. It’s possible to declare letter spacing using either pixels or percents, but in API response we always receive values in pixels. It would be really nice to know original letter spacing unit. Here are 2 different typography with 12px and 12% letter spacing and their representation in API (GET /v1/files/:key): As you can see, we can’t build our interface for this letter spacing unit that would match values configured in Figma UI. So, it leads to inconsistency for our users that see percent values in Figma but pixel values in our UI. Or vice versa: if we convert all pixel letter spacing to percents, then people created letter spacing in pixels would see another value in percent units.

The resources pop-up should remember if you’ve choses “Local Components” and the view type. At the moment it defaults back to “Recents” and grid view, when I prefer different settings. This button is a cool alternative to having to switch between Layer view and Asset view to get to my components, but if it keeps on resetting each time I click off of it it has no use whatsoever.

We use Figma to create one-pagers and guides. The issue is that when exporting to PDF Figma automatically outlines all of the text. You lose the ability to make an editable PDF with acrobat because all of the type is a shape. It would be great to have the option to retain the type when it’s exported. If there’s an option to fix this lmk.

Hi folks its Highly urgent and necessary for our team to have such an ability to create folders inside our Projects, I suggest that to @figma team to pls take this one into consideration. thats a real burden for our team at the moment. thats what we are looking for!

It makes the opportunity to create less variants, just if i need to change nested variant in variant, i can choose frame and make interaction to variant from another variant set, which variant i used as nested in previous set. Please upvote this It also can make different codependent layers from different sets work with smart animate option

It would be interesting if Figma in the Light and Dark themes was completely in that theme, these dark areas (toolbar and system frame) in the light theme make the app look strange, in addition, a problem that I would like to report is that the background of the editing area does not change when changing the application theme, that is, if I created the project in Dark mode, even if it is in Light, the background remains dark, so there could be this automatic switch, if the user does not change the original colors of course.

Often, I find myself needing to convert multiple groups or frames into individual Auto Layouts rather than combining them into a single Auto Layout group. It would be helpful to have an option in the Auto Layout panel or Right-Click menu for selecting and converting these groups separately.

Hi , [Protype Playing Page] When i use to click on tabs of my website design’s top navigation bar , Figma’s automatic scrolling down top navigation ( where the title , share prototype etc. is ) interrupts and I am unable to click the tabs on my design . This bugs me a lot. I know that i can change the design to make it clickable but still i would have to change the design to do this process . It would be better if you find a way to showcase top menu in different way like when you click a button it appears , something like that .

Hi Everyone! I’m collaborating with multiple people on the same FigJam file, and everyone creates and edit elements in the canvas. Is it possible to receive a notification (in the notification center or email even) when a specific element has been modified (without searching in the history center)? Is there a tool that already exist or could it be coded? Thank you very much for your help 🙂

It would be awesome to hold some keys and have directly the possibility to link it as Overlay. The same way as it is with Swap – holding ⌥ key will make the link/noodle as Swap. I find myself using too few times the Swap feature, while the Overlay is on a daily basis. Maybe holding ⌘ will make the link/noodle as Open overlay.

I would love the ability too componentize a transition / animation. For example, having a defined custom bezier smart animation for all modals opening. This would work in the same way as a simple button does. One master (+variants if needed), then it is published across files like normal! We all know the benefits of using components so I wont bother trying to upsell this feature request! 😉

Exactly what the title says, when I select multiple instances of a component or multiple instances of different components I cannot paste an interaction to all of them at once, I have to do it one by one.

Community files create a lot of clutter to the already chaotic file management in Figma. In my opinion, having a separate tab for community files would help greatly. There should be some way to segregate personal files from community files in Figma.

Why is there no button to restore my main component after it is deleted?

Problem occurs when working with others, be it more designers or, especially for Developers. The issue is that there might be slight changes to a Design file (the source of truth) but they’d not notice them cause that’d mean they’d have to carefully check every single frame again and compare it with what was developed already. Of course it’s possible to try to highlight it in some sense, or create multiple pages or frames with only the changes. Or describing it in JIRa ticket. But all this is duplicate work, frankly, a waste of time. And with these approaches you also lose “The source of truth” that Figma should be. A place where a QA will come and check that everything’s fine for example. How do you guys solve it?

Hi Figma team, I’d like to share some thoughts. The Dev Mode is undoubtedly helpful for designers in facilitating seamless design handoffs. Here’s an idea: what if engineers could manipulate theme modes directly within the Dev Mode? This way, they could inspect both light and dark modes without relying on designers to toggle the theme in Editor Mode. It could streamline collaboration and enhance the overall workflow.

Make text style changes the same way color styles work: being able to select all frames and swap styles from the right column that applies to every instance. Situation: If you need to swap the font styles used in a project in bulk; you need to edit the style definition but you cannot swap a style with another one the same way you can do with colors. Example: You have a white label product where you need to swap a style with another from the design system. For colors, you can CTRL+A and select every frame, and change the colors you want from the right column controls with a few clicks. For text styles, you have to go to each element using that style, and change it one by one. I see that this was flagged more than a year ago but did not have any discussion over it - community input welcome as I cannot find a way around this yet.

Problem: When calling getLocalPaintStyles the result doesn’t have a thumbnail_url like when using the rest API for team styles. Goal: use the getLocalPaintStyles to populate a list of shared styles. Proposed solution: Add thumbnail_url to the return object of getLocalPaintStyles

With the current functionality it is possible to simulate checkboxes. But for all component that might work as a radio buttons (Tabs, switcher, radios, selection) we can only use the new functionality for the Hovering aspect.

In FigJam, when choosing a custom colour to fill a shape or a different outline colour, it would be so helpful for new colours to be added to the palette so you can easily choose the colours in future. It’s annoying having to keep the hex codes on the page and copying them before colouring a new shape/element that isn’t easily copyable.

I like the mirror. Only you always have to select the frame to see it in the mirror. What I would like is a mirror that always shows what I am editing without me having to select the frame. Here in Adobe XD works Do you want that too! So click on the button “vote” on top

When selecting a specific shape, only a limited number of options are available to Change its shape. The full menu of making a shape is more expansive than what is offered when it comes time to making changes. This makes workflows very difficult.

It would be nice to have some kind of visual reference next to variables that have been hidden from publishing. Working with complex variable structures and multiple collections, it gets easy to lose track of which variables are hidden and which are public. Only current way to track this is by going into the edit menus.

User Story: As a FigJam user collaborating on expansive boards, I want a draggable map feature similar to tools in MIRO and Adobe Photoshop. This will optimize navigation, allowing seamless zooming and panning for improved usability.