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Variables: Color alias with alpha / opacity (rgba ideally)

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June 22, 2023
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hey there!

variables seems to be super nice but what i am missing is that if i make a colour alias to a specific collection - i can’t set the opacity separately (e.g. colour 50 with 20% opacity)

So basically i want the colouyr to be from another collection and i want to set the alpha seperatly (controlled as rgba - since i dont need it as opacity)

Example how we can fix this in token studio:

So what i want is that i can set blue/5 and then the opacity (which i dont want to capture in another colour variable)

Now its only possible if i break the link with gray/75 - and then i loose the reference to that colour

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Marine4

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+1 I’m having a hard time believing this has not been implemented yet. It’s pretty tedious to work on building smart design systems without such features

Frans_Baud

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Yes this would be sooooooo helpfull reducing management in Color Tokens

Schaltza

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+1 I’m baffled why this hasn’t been implemented yet.

TE149

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Once you start using Figma professionally you start to notice how much of a Beta Product they offer and what a money grab they are, starting with a limitation of 4 modes and going on to missing basic features. Get it together Figma, you are asking for a lot of money lately, we deserve a good product!

Raz_Pulurian

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+1 Desperately need this. I need to create a lot of opacity variants for my design systems, and this would definitely speed things up, esecially in the early phases where I’m trying to rapidy iterate on colors and tweak / adjust them. Eech time I make an iteration, I need to break the alias, copy the color code, and paste it into several other variables. Multiple iterations x multiple variables to copy x multiple modes = a huge pain. On a single project, it wouldn’t be an exageration to say I needed to break and re-assign variables thousands of times. It feels like feature request is a meme at this point. Other than a few minor updates, variables have remained largely untouched since launch, which is sad.