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Kellie3
July 31, 2023

Ability to output a color variable's value in a text layer

  • July 31, 2023
  • 14 replies
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Seems you can only add numbers or strings to text layers. It would be great if you could output a color value as text. It’d be really useful for setting up a style guide template that can be updated to different themes.

14 replies

Kyle_Rawding
July 31, 2023

Agreed - have the exact same use case

February 10, 2024

same here, have been searching for workarounds to do this too.

djv
Figmate
Community Support
February 12, 2024

Hey All, thanks for the feedback!

We’ll pass this onto our team for future consideration.

thetallkiwi
November 5, 2024

Same case here, some plugins make a good attempt but the sync between interconnected variables isn’t smooth and that matters to me, would love this addition

SubhanJetquity
New Member
February 17, 2025

I’d like to bump this. I have a very similar use case of providing component definitions with colour variables in light + dark mode variants.

Currently, the only duplicates I have to make are for the text values for the colours, even if I create string variables for each it still allows for regression in the values if I forgot to change both the colour and the text description simultaneously. 

This change could resolve all that, essentially having the ability to “Extract a colour as text”.

Dibakar Jana
New Member
February 21, 2025

It will help a lot to create a Style Guide.

Tom_Hendrickx1
New Participant
March 19, 2025

+1 

Dan_Ma
New Member
July 9, 2025

+1 here too. Google search brought me here.

Would definitely help a lot with Style Guides/Design Libraries especially if you have a load of colours and want to utilise different color themes (light vs dark mode etc)

New Member
September 23, 2025

Big +1 again

Arjun Venkatesh
New Member
October 15, 2025

+1 for use too!