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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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Silverjerk

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Just chiming in to add another voice to the mix; rebuilding our design system and need several variants of our color aliases to use transparency. The lack of this feature has caused us to have to rethink our approach and significantly impacted our process since it is so critical to our new system.

Volodymyr_Kosianchuk

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NIF

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We've been requesting this feature for over two years with genuine hope. Every single day, I check Figma's updates longing to see it finally implemented, and every single day ends in disappointment. It's disheartening to see such a fundamental need remain unaddressed while Figma prioritizes flashy new tools like Sites and Draw Mode.
As someone who deeply values your product, I urge you to listen to persistent user voices — not just chasing AI trends but solving the real pain points we live with daily.