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Lukas_Oppermann
Lukas_Oppermann
January 29, 2021

Use styles in other styles

  • January 29, 2021
  • 45 replies
  • 9129 views

Problem
Currently you can’t use color styles in other styles like grid or effect styles.
However this is very helpful for building design systems. Otherwise when changing a color that is used in effect styles you have to manually change it in all effect styles (which is a lot of work and can lead to bugs by forgetting it).

Solution
One possible solution would be to allow us to use color styles within the other styles.

Am I the only person who feels this pain or do others run into this as well?

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    ryanleichty
    ryanleichty
    September 23, 2022

    This is doable in CSS, so it makes sense to include this in Figma. For example:

    :root {
  --color-primary: gray;
  --color-background: var(--color-primary);
}
      ryanleichty
      ryanleichty
      September 23, 2022

      I don’t personally like this because it distances itself from how we would use CSS variables on the web

        Kamen_Bundev
        Kamen_Bundev
        October 3, 2022

        I would really appreciate a way to specify dependent colors, based on HSL and/or HSB/V and possibility to export that to CSS vars.

          Alexandr_Schetinin
          Alexandr_Schetinin
          October 14, 2022

          Last night I couldn’t sleep. I thought about how great it would be to implement nested colors in figma. It’s great that I’m not the only one. We need this feature! 😁

            Veniamin_Mylnikov
            Veniamin_Mylnikov
            New Participant
            October 30, 2022

            We need this feature))) Figma please 🙏

              Alexey_Loginov
              Alexey_Loginov
              New Member
              October 31, 2022

              Huge plus ++++++++++

                Abobe
                Abobe
                October 31, 2022

                No this feature
                I’m against

                Abobe
                Abobe
                October 31, 2022

                I don’t like it
                I’m against

                Dannytphan
                Dannytphan
                New Member
                December 6, 2022

                Yes, please! This would be an excellent foundation for design tokens!

                Rob_Power
                Rob_Power
                January 23, 2023

                Please implement this 🙂 When creating a new color style allow me the option to choose from existing color styles. This is one thing I do miss from Sketch.

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