Reorder variable collections list

I don’t understand how such a usability issue still persists.

The logical flow for creating color variables should be:

1. Create Primitives
2. Create Semantic Tokens

However, the fill color selection panel orders these by creation date, which means primitives always show first. As a result, I have to scroll past every primitive to reach my semantic colors. Please fix this!

This is an incredibly important topic for design systems. It should definitely follow a better logic than “creation date” (e.g. alphabetically) or be individually adjustable!
Much needed! Please fix this!
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Still an issue a year later, I see 😦 this is such a pain

+1!!! Really don’t want to be messing around with sneaky solutions to fix.

Please fix the ability to reorder color collections in the fill. Or let it follow the collection ordering in the variables manager

Yeah, still an issue for me too. With nearly 1870 variables and the primitives being the first in the list nobody is going to use the tokens. It renders them theoretical at best. I need to be able to at least order the collections.

Wow. How is this still not solved? It’s been over a year

Has anyone else had random reordering of the collections?

I made sure to create the Token collection first, and it’s usually on top. But for both me and my colleague, Primitives appeared first instead.

We then rebooted Figma, and now the order is correct again. I have no idea why this is happening…

Any update on this? Hugely needed.

This is such an important topic for design systems! +1 for the updates above. & would also love the ability to collapse collections/select from the list a collections that are available within that color library screen so its not as overwhelming to look through for the user!