Thanks @neelts - this looks really promising.
Please Figma team, add this feature
Basically Excel/Sheets like input possibilities, that would make prototypes more lively and real.
I’d love to see a number to HEX converter (text) “HEX(red-value)” (or something like that) and the possibility to use a text variable as colour. That would be possible if variables would allow formulas as value.
+1
Co-signing yet another great and much-needed feature. Love Figma, keeps getting better—let’s keep pushing it with new features like this. 🙂
This feels like a function that was missed, among others. Definitely need this feature…+1000000000
+1 here.
Also formula on colors would be fantastic! With this feature I’d be able to set main theme color and automatically derive all intermediate colors from it.
+1 as well. This would be a gamechanger and making base components a lot easier
+1. Yes, please. It would be awesome!
Penpot will have this feature pretty soon.
Let’s keep this one alive, even though it might be a micro-feature. It’s similar to a few other features I’ve been looking around at, so I hope it gets lumped in with those.
Praying the Figma dev team adds this soon! It seems like a small addition considering that we already have variables.
NEED THIS +1 this is extremely helpful if you are showing your designs in static mode to clients to give them an easy understanding of something you are trying to convey - I am not a prototyper nor do I plan to start, but I am a HEAVY variable user
Hey All, thanks for the feedback here!
We’ll pass this onto the team for future consideration.
I’m dealing with a token library that has values that are formulas global x 1.25 etc… This is crucial…
I can’t tell you how disappointed I was at Config this year in the lack of product updates.
Variables was such a great idea that you got 50% of the way there.
Just adding a request for this as well. Ideally also being able to add multiple other variables together.
keeping alive!!! This is definitely needed - please keep variables in mind
Need this. Need it for default font size, rem etc.
+1 as well. Would be nice
For annotating responsive mockups and demonstrating behavior, I’d like to be able to reference a variable minus 1. For example, to show the widest possible behavior of a component at the small breakpoint, I want to be able to set the width of a frame to medium - 1.
This feature is a must specially for dynamic space systems
This feature would be ideal for experimenting with modular typographic scales.
However, it’s a bit of a slippery slope (in a good way)…
Adding a formula engine could transform Figma into a powerful data visualisation tool.
If Figma then allowed designers to surface these values within the design itself, it could become a more flexible, visually-driven, spreadsheet-like tool.
With these possibilities in mind, it’s easy to imagine Figma assigning a team to prototyping these kind of far-reaching concepts to see what’s possible/desirable. This way they could introduce smaller features (as in the original post) incrementally, ensuring they don’t close off the path to these ambitious long-term goals.
This might also align with their apparent strategy of providing a suite of creative-focussed productivity tools.
I’m a plus for this feature.
