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Make Figma's Brush Tool More Powerful with Custom Brushes & Community Brush Packs

  • August 17, 2026
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Soremnz

I think Figma's Brush tool has a lot of potential, but currently feels quite limited compared to dedicated painting tools.

I'd love to see a more advanced Brush system that could include features such as:

  • Adjustable brush size, hardness, opacity and flow

  • Pressure sensitivity

  • Stroke smoothing

  • Spacing, scattering and rotation controls

  • Custom brush shapes

  • Eraser and smudge/blending tools

  • The ability to create, save and organize personal brushes

  • Brush presets and custom brush libraries

Community Brush Library

I think the biggest opportunity would be connecting custom brushes with the Figma Community.

Designers could create their own brushes or brush packs and publish them to the Figma Community. Other users could then discover, install and use those brushes directly in their Figma projects.

This could create a whole ecosystem around brushes, similar to other Community resources.

For example, the community could create:

  • Texture and grain brushes

  • Ink and pencil brushes

  • Pixel-art brushes

  • Lighting and glow brushes

  • Grunge brushes

  • Hand-painted brushes

  • Sci-fi or game UI brushes

  • Decorative and stylized brushes

Designers could also create their own brushes from images or custom shapes and keep them in personal libraries.

Why this would be useful

I often have to leave Figma whenever I need to create custom textures, painted shadows, highlights, atmospheric effects or other raster-based details.

As a UI/UX and Roblox UI designer, being able to handle these elements directly inside Figma would make the workflow much faster and reduce the need to switch between multiple applications.

I don't think Figma needs to become Photoshop. Instead, a more capable Brush tool could provide a lightweight raster-painting workflow that works naturally alongside Figma's existing vector tools.

Combined with a community-driven brush ecosystem, this could make the Brush tool much more useful for UI designers, illustrators, game UI designers and visual designers.

I'd love to hear what other designers think about this idea.

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