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

  • June 22, 2023
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Alex_Karoza
  • New Member
  • June 20, 2025

Or even better, allow modification of any values based on the original variable.

For example, changing Hue in HSL or Alpha in CSS.
 

With LAB+LCH/OKLCH color systems supporting updates, it will be HUGE!

It can change the way people think about color.

For other variables, it will also be beneficial; for example, to dynamically align inner and outer border radii.


schoon
  • New Member
  • July 14, 2025

+1 Also needing this feature


JacksonSingleton

Does anyone have any sort of workaround? Most of my components use a background color on the base frame. I would have to rebuild my entire design system, or 10x the number of variables I have while losing the ability to reference the root color. How is this not addressed or supported?


Nathan2
  • New Participant
  • July 24, 2025

+1 - Would love to have tokens for opacity independent of tokens for color


yujinyujin
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  • July 30, 2025

+1. It would allow for so much more flexibility. Would be amazing to be able to pair set opacity tokens WITH color tokens


arda0
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  • August 26, 2025

+1 

 

Need this ASAP.


Recep_Kutuk
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  • October 14, 2025

FYI 😊


Jeremy_Knudsen

So, it’s happening finally ???


Tiago_Gomes
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  • January 28, 2026

For all ppl out there apparently you can make a Linear gradient with the same color and them add a transparency on the side panel :P 
 

 


Recep_Kutuk
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  • January 30, 2026

For all ppl out there apparently you can make a Linear gradient with the same color and them add a transparency on the side panel :P 
 

 

But what’s the point? Consider this: The most convenient use case (for me at least) is selecting a component and clicking on “Selection colors” option to change necessary colors easily. There’s no work around to enable this.