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July 11, 2023

LAUNCHED: Ability to reorder Variable Modes

  • July 11, 2023
  • 58 replies
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As design systems grow organically, it might be necessary to reorder Variable Modes in the Local variables panel, similarly to how it is possible to reorder variables.

58 replies

Jordan_Hughes
New Participant
July 24, 2023

+1 to this. If like in Figma’s deep dive you want to create modes for a component, currently you have to ensure that you set things up correctly at the start. Otherwise if you decide that you need an additional mode later, it may not sit in the right order.

e.g. let’s say you have Medium (Default), Small & Large modes. If you want to add an ‘Extra Small’ mode later, it will end up at the end the list or next to your ‘Large’

  • Medium (Default)
  • Small
  • Large
  • Extra Small

Feels wrong! Please give us reordering and allow us to specify the default 🙂

Kyle_Rawding
July 31, 2023

Agreed, this is massively inconvenient

Sandra_Moore
August 9, 2023

Yes, we would like this as well. We built out several dozen variables in 2 modes to support our brands, but now realize we would be better served if we also had a grayscale, wireframe-style default mode. The only way to do that is to rebuild the variable table from scratch.

Alternatively, the ability to set a particular mode as the default rather than forcing the first mode to be the default would help.

Brian_K
New Participant
August 11, 2023

C’mon… even a simple drag and drop here would be fine! 😁

Anders_Therkildsen
New Member
September 1, 2023

Drag and drop FTW! 🤏

Christopher_Arendt
September 6, 2023

Looking forward to reordering modes, thanks.

Alx
September 16, 2023

Please consider this, as it significantly benefits large design systems.

Vlad37
September 26, 2023

+1
that would be really nice, when library grows with time.

Stephane_Popout
September 29, 2023

I built a plugin to save & reuse variables between your Figma files and it could help you to reorder the modes too

Waiting for Figma to build it natively, it can already help many

Here is the small tutorial I did and the youtube link (if you need subtitles or video below does not work)

October 24, 2023

This is seriously needed…