Week 3 - Great plugins for small design details
This week's five new Figma plugins.
This week’s issue is all about small things… Quick actions, tiny tasks, design fine points and smaller parts of bigger projects. Sometimes we look for advanced plugins that do everything for us, but forget it’s the small stuff that adds up to all the work.
In design, like in life, the beauty is in the details. So here are five new Figma plugins that focus on just that: the details.
1. Gravicon
Import favicons directly into Figma.
Gravicon grabs a website’s favicon and brings it directly into Figma. No more copying and pasting, or saving the image to import later… With this plugin simply enter the URL of the website whose favicon you need and it appears in your canvas! As any new plugin, it still needs some love, and doesn’t work for all websites. We tried it for Figma Plugin Weekly’s favicon and, alas, no reward…
🎁 FREE
🖼️ Fastest way to get favicons into Figma
🛠️ Still needs improvement; doesn’t work with all websites
2. Logo Grid Resizer
Get your logos in order.
Imagine: you’re designing your landing page and need to show off all the amazing companies using your product with a grid of logos… Anyone who has worked on this knows that aligning those logos is no easy feat. Thankfully, there’s a plugin for that!
Logo Grid Resizer lines-up your company logos to look just right. You can align them by height, width or a proportionally-balanced height-width ratio. It was a little buggy at times when we tried it, but generally works as promised, and will surely only improve with time.
🎁 FREE
⚡️ Promising
🪲 A little buggy at times
3. Magnifier
Zoom in on any part of your design.
Magnifier is a great plugin for preparing product documentation assets, design portfolios, marketing materials... It zooms in on the area of your design you select and comes with light and dark styles in the free version. Use Magnifier together with iMockup, from our previous issue, and you’ll have the perfect combo to create impressive marketing and portfolio assets.
🎁 Basic FREE plan + advanced paid plan
💼 Great if you’re working on your portfolio
👍 Good, consistent results
4. Shapes Kit
Create 3D shapes in seconds.
Yes, Figma comes with built-in shapes, but they’re not 3D and to give them depth and dimension involves a lot of fiddly, manual work. So a plugin like Shapes Kit is great if you need a cube, cylinder, rhombus or any other 3D form in your designs. Use the plugin’s parameters to create the shape you want, modify at any time and see live results as you go. All shapes created with the plugin are fully editable vectors.
🎁 FREE
🔷 Wide variety of 3D shapes included
✏️ Fully editable vectors
5. Stepper Creator
The fastest way to design a stepper.
If you need to design an onboarding, or any step-by-step guide, then Stepper Creator does it for you. Define the number of steps, style and direction you want, and the plugin automatically generates a stepper interface, with accessibility built-in for you. Now there’s no need to create those circles and lines by hand anymore!
🎁 FREE
⏱️ Fast + big time-saver
📱 Straightforward UX and UI
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