[LAUNCHED] All plans should offer more than 4 variable modes

I’d even love to see 10-12 modes in the Organization plan. If it’s going to cost three times as much as Pro, how about three times the modes?

Maybe instead of 4-4-40, it’s something like 4-12-36?

Here is a new plugin that allows you to have pretty much infinite modes: it helps you swap variables between different collections, even between libraries. Basically works like Swap Library for variables.

https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1334258818515407420/swap-variables

As predicted, cue the hacks plugins to get around this arbitrary limit.

Thanks for the resources @Gleb

Hello, our organization is also running into the issue. We have 1 product that needs to scale across 30 brands, each brand has a light, dark, and accent mode. So in total we need 90+ modes in one design system file.

Are there any current work arounds for this? if I create 3 separate variable library files with 30 modes in each- can those libraries still apply to one design system file?

Is there any future updates that will expand the amount of modes?

My suggestion:
Professional: 5
Organization: 10
Enterprise: 40

That would be fair.

The whole concept of these limitations make no sense to me.

Jumping in here, we’re in the same situation as Haleigh, as even with an Enterprise plan the limitation of 40 modes is too restrictive for our use cases, with multiple clients and themes/modes.

Really the “40” modes limit for variables should be for organization tier and variables should not be limited in any version since there is SO much out there you can’t even try if you don’t have at least one of the higher tier licenses.

Enterprise should be much larger and designed to flex to work with massive databases you’d expect massive enterprises to have needs for.

I don’t agree that any limitations would be fair.

That plugin looks interesting and useful a slightly different purpose but it doesn’t appear to be a great supplement for modes. It doesn’t dynamically cascade and I guess you’d have to put variable sets in a bunch of different files, however many you’d want to swap between.