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

Definitely need more than 4, at least 10 - 20

This limitation makes absolutely zero sense. The number of variable modes required isn’t something that scales up proportionate to the size or structure of your design team, which makes this limitation feel completely arbitrary and blatantly opportunistic.

Have Adobe sent you sales consultants to come up with ridiculous ideas like this? Because it feels completely unthought-out and unlike something I’d expect Figma to do.

We were so excited to use modes to quickly update our entire prototype for usability testing. We were thrilled when we saw our participants’ names, balances, status tiers, etc. updating seamlessly and effortlessly across many pages and components… and then we saw the message RE 4 modes max. We’re lucky that we’re only running two sessions simultaneously so we can update the modes, but it adds extra time, effort, and stress.

We don’t need an enterprise account. We don’t need REST API integration. Our little design team just needs more than 4 modes.

I agree will all of the comments above. I am leading an Open Source Accessibility Theme Builder project and I am an individual designer with a professional account. I am trying to create color blind themes and there are 8 types of colorblindness, hence I need 9 modes - standard + the 8 colorblind modes… I want to enable all designer the opportunity to apply accessible themes/modes to their design, which means not only do I need access to more that 4 modes but everyone does. Please support this effort and help us reimagine what it means to create accessible experiences by opening up the number of mode available to all designer up to 10.

This is probably the most valuable comment here. Thanks for you efforts @Lise_Noble

Out of curiosity, what are the benefits of having a wide range of color blindness themes VS one theme that ensures designs meet WCAG contrast ratios?

@Travis 12 I have not come across a 10 color blind pallet in which each of the colors offers a contrast of 3.1:1 against white in light mode and 3.1:1 in dark mode. For charts and graphs you need to have a 3:1 contrast. I am working at developing accessible experiences in both light and dark modes. In addition, there are colors that kind of work for each of the types of color blindness but they are not optimised for each. I am working on a open source accessibility, accessibility theme builder, that is trying to re-imagine the way we build accessible experiences.

4 is not an arbitrary limit, it is carefully selected so that it is not possible to create library components that support 3 breakpoints and two color modes. Which is a common scenario. Its a business decision to force bigger organizatios into the most most expensive plan.

Zero intention of using Variable Modes with this limit. What a waste of a good feature, just sitting behind an obnoxiously high paywall.

Adding some more fuel to this request. I think there is plenty of justification in the above comments for not limiting modes for smaller teams. Is Figma really thinking that individual designers and small teams don’t: localize designs for more than 4 languages, create more than 4 different color schemes (or present more than 4 to a client before deciding on the one), design for only 4 device size breakpoints, or have more than 4 different font explorations? Those are just a few examples. Such an arbitrary limitation really keeps the feature from realizing its full potential, because small teams will NEVER pay for enterprise just to get more modes.

Hello,

Currently I am at the point where I need more than 4 Variable Modes for my designs.

I was looking for a billing plan to meet my needs and I found out that there is only an Entreprise mode (the most expensive) where you pass from 4 available modes directly to 40 !

There are a lot of other features that are appear in Entreprise that I personally don’t need at all (as well as in the Figma Organization mode for example).

Is there any way to get more variable modes for additional fee without passing to the Entreprise mode ? Command and pay for each +5 or +10 modes for example.

Has anyone experienced the same frustration ? @Figma_Moderation do you thing it is possible to propose something for such people as me ?

Thank you in advance !