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Baffour
January 3, 2023

Set Default Section Colours in Figma

  • January 3, 2023
  • 20 replies
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Hi, I wanted to suggest preset colour options for Sections in Figma, similar to FigJam.

The default grey colour blends into the default canvas background meaning I always need to choose a custom stroke + fill after using it. It’s an easy task but it breaks my flow to have to stop and change the colour of a section in the middle of whatever I’m doing.

To be honest you could improve this just by changing the default colour from grey, but having some of the FigJam presets makes it a lot easier if you have different colour sections for categorisation.

20 replies

April 3, 2023

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SoJung_Ham
August 10, 2023

I want to add my +1 to this thread. Thank you @dvaliao for opening it back up.

I would love to be able to change the default section color in my Figma without having to manually set it every time. Currently, it’s set on #ffffff and it’s causing all of my designs to blend in. Hope there’s a fix for this soon!

Seth_Smith
August 28, 2023

Just had this question today. It changed from grey to white and that really clashes with all of my designs now because for my job the webpages are often white. haha!

Baffour
BaffourAuthor
August 28, 2023

I feel your pain because when the default page background colour changed to #F4F4F4 it clashed with the BG colour in my designs.

I think allowing you to set a couple of defaults would go a long way!

Lino_Ramirez
September 7, 2023

+1 to this. It’s so annoying that new sections between files in our org are so different as the defaults from Figma kept changing so it looks random.

Shannon_Copfer_Brace
October 23, 2023

Yes please it’s very irritating to have to change this every time!! The page backgrounds are white so I want the sections to be darker for contrast.

Chris_Ahn
New Member
December 5, 2023

+1 to this!

Gercek1
December 21, 2023

+1 to this, especially the white default background color makes it a bit more annoying because it’s a common background color used in frames and components.

Barraco_Anita
January 5, 2024

I as well am needing a way to change the default section color in my Figma without having to manually set it every time. Currently, it’s set on #ffffff and it’s causing all of my designs to blend in. Hope there’s a fix for this soon!

Arvid
Active Member
March 27, 2024

Yet again I am sadly out of votes but please imagine that I did vote xD