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Court_Kizer
New Participant
Jan 24, 2021 8:00 AM UTC

Layer Label Color

I would love the ability to set a background color in the layer list. I’d like to be able to set this on an individual layer or group of layers.

I often have trouble finding important groups of layers. I’ve resorted to using emojis which helps. But imagine that we could color the background color of the label.

I’d also like to edit the label name so that in my document “Blue” would represent to my developers that it’s grids.

45 replies

djv
Figmate
Community Support
Nov 30, 2023 11:10 PM UTC

Hey All, thanks for the feedback!

We hear you, and so sorry that no one has acknowledged this topic since January 2021. We’ve passed this onto our team for future consideration.

Jan 25, 2024 6:00 PM UTC

Please add this!!!

manuel_s
New Member
Feb 27, 2024 8:45 PM UTC

Need this feature!!

Apr 17, 2024 12:46 AM UTC

would be very very helpful!!

Court_Kizer
New Participant
May 8, 2024 5:37 PM UTC

This would be amazing. Thanks for taking my concept to the next level. We can hope!

Jul 16, 2024 10:52 AM UTC

Hey hi!

Any news on this feature? I hope we can see it soon 🙂

Aug 15, 2024 5:27 AM UTC

Where is this feature??

Aug 15, 2024 10:50 PM UTC

Bumping this. Would love to be able to color layers much like you can in After Effects. As a Motion Designer who spends most of my time in Figma now I can say that there is a lot of low hanging fruit that Figma should tackle. Layer colors and docking/ editing the workspace would be huge!

Aug 19, 2024 5:28 PM UTC

Hi,

I have hundreds of levels and naming frames to get it quickly just partially resolve the problem.
It might be great to adopt colour options for each level and frame like Adobe benefited years ago from.

Still in order to get a cleaner and more friendly UI, it might be great to get more contrast between project page and levels section. Atm at first look they are pretty similar and separated just by a tiny grey line. Maybe, it might be help a bolder separator or even a slightly darker background for page section?

MakePixelsWork
Active Member
Oct 31, 2024 12:53 PM UTC

Well… I thought I would post a topic about it, but apparently a lot of other designers had the same idea. Great! Now, how about adding this nice feature to Figma, Figma?

Here is my take on it, inspired by Photoshop, but I also like the colors of OP @Court_Kizer, who posted about this back in Jan 2021. Wow!

Here is hoping Figma chooses this and many more functional updates, instead of working on tweaking the defunct UI3. But that is another story.