Long story short: I really need the eyedropper tool to recognise when I’m colorpicking a transparent color. I used to get around this by copy-pasting the fill appearance (very tedious but not impossible) and pasting it onto another object. But if I need this color to be in my variables and not on an object, the only way for me to fill in these values is to literally hand-write every hex code and opacity value separately. Like I need to have two windows open and cross-reference all these values manually. It’s madness.

For context, I’m trying to import my generated custom palette from Radix UI into Figma variables. I have found various Plugins that get me half of the way there, but not all the way. Not even in combination with each other.

I have:

• light mode & dark mode


• solid color scales for each mode


• alpha color scales for each mode
  
  I found a plugin that will generate swatches out of the CSS that I copy from Radix, but I cannot bring these swatches into Figma Variables with the modes. I can’t find any plugin that will let me select the dark mode swatches and say ‘put these into dark mode’.

I could create the entire structure by hand, but then I would at least need the ability to colourpick the alpha values with the eyedropper.

Does anyone have any solution to this??? And if not, Figma can we please have some kind of ability to pick alpha colors and put them into variables?