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Equinusocio
June 22, 2023

Add way to change opacity for color variables alias, fills, strokes, etc

  • June 22, 2023
  • 158 replies
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When aliasing a color variable to another (img 1), or using it directly on an element (img 2), we should be able to override the opacity without the need to create a variable for each transparency variation:

Cant override opacity in the alias:

CleanShot 2023-06-22 at 10.09.00

Example 2

Cant override the fill opacity:

158 replies

Webinsane
December 12, 2024

Sometimes, this is truly necessary, especially when working on templates where changing one color, like the brand color, automatically updates all variations.

Paul_Bomke
December 12, 2024

All I wish for Christmas is this 🥲

Hampus Svallfors
New Member
January 17, 2025

Please.

Laura A Hartford
New Member
January 23, 2025

+1 for the opacity option for a color variable

wgo
Active Member
March 7, 2025

+1 on this topic. It’s hard for me to understand why this hasn’t been implemented yet. Makes theming so much harder.

Thanks for considering this, Figma developer team… 8-)

Jared_r
New Participant
March 12, 2025

+1 Design System Management is still painful without a feature like this

Jared_r
New Participant
March 12, 2025

+1 Design System management and theming so painful without this

Barry Lachapelle
New Member
March 26, 2025

This is an atrocity. Figma this really needs addressing.

Matías Cesario
New Member
April 7, 2025

We need this!!! +1000

Zoe_Gomez
Active Member
April 9, 2025

Would love this