Week 42 - Special Effects Edition
Five new Figma plugins for adding special effects to your designs.
Our last issue for September and the first one of Fall (in the northern hemisphere)… How time flies!
This week we have a special edition dedicated to five of the latest editing and special effect plugins. Figma Community even has a dedicated category for these plugins, fully aware that designers are always on the hunt for new and creative ways of adding depth to their designs.
So, if that’s you and you’re searching for the newest effect plugins available, look no further! 👇👀💫
1. Concentric Pattern Generator
Create concentric circles, squares, ovals, rectangles.
Inspired by the visuals of Hyperliquid, the plugin Concentric Pattern Generator creates concentric patterns that can be applied to circles, ovals, rectangles and more. Adjust the shape, color, stroke and more, then select ‘Create new pattern’ to insert your concentric pattern on your Figma canvas. There’s also the option to generate patterns at random. One of the latest editing and effects plugins that’s both fun and free!
🎁 FREE
🌀 Create cool concentric patterns
🎨 Customize color, shape, stroke, spacing…
2. Neumorphism Shadow Generator
Create beautiful shadow effects.
Neumorphism Shadow Generator is a great new effect plugin for creating more advanced shadows in your designs. First, play around with the settings to create the shadow you want. You can change the light source, intensity, color and more to achieve a unique effect. Select ‘Insert to Figma’ to place the shape with its shadow effect into your Figma canvas. Then you can copy all its styles and apply them to anything you want: text, frame, shapes…
🎁 3-day FREE trial 💰 $9 one-time payment
🔦 Create cool shadow effects
🎨 Customize color, radius, intensity, blur…
3. Noise
Add realism with noise in Figma.
There may be a few “noise-generating” plugins already; but the latest, aptly-named Noise plugin is free and super easy to use. Pick your color and size, and adjust the levers to get the right noise texture you want. Then click ‘Apply noise’ to add the desired effect to any selected object or frame in your canvas.
🎁 FREE
💥 Add noise texture effects to your designs.
🎨 Customize color, density, smoothness...
4. Orbit
Effortlessly curve your text around circles.
Orbit is one of the newest plugins for curving your text. Perfect for designing logos! Wrap text around a full circle while maintaining compatibility with most fonts and sizes. Plus, your text is fully editable if you need to make any changes after applying the effect. Orbit is still work-in-progress with more features and improvements coming soon.
🎁 5 FREE tries 💰 $2 one-time payment
⭕️ Curve your text in a circular shape.
🎨 Compatible with most fonts and sizes
5. Supa Mesh Gradient
Create customizable mesh gradients in Figma.
Supa Mesh Gradient is the ideal Figma plugin if you want to combine advanced gradients with noise texture at the same time. Apply static, grainy or metaballs mesh noise to your gradients and customize everything from opacity to scale and blur. You’ll have a real-time preview of all the adjustments you make; then you can either insert your gradients into your Figma canvas, or apply them directly to selected layers.
🎁 FREE
🌈 Create gradients with different noise effects.
🎨 Customize opacity, scale, blur, blend...
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