Change opacity on a referenced color variable

I get why that would be frustrating. Changing the opacity of a color variable directly without detaching it would be a useful feature. Currently, Figma doesn’t allow for overriding opacity directly on referenced color variables, which indeed forces you to either detach or create new variables for each opacity level.

Hey @Henrik_Andersen, thanks for the feedback!

@Alok is correct that this is currently expected behavior. I updated your topic for clarity, and we’ll pass this onto our team for future improvement.

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Exactly, Needed this.
Thanks for raising it @Henrik_Andersen 🙌

Earlier opacity wasn’t handled very well over web. Now we can manage it in strokes and fill easily, without worrying about interactions/animations.
So I believe this can help in managing design systems by allowing opacity overriding for color tokens.

+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-)

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