Week 63 - Content manager, token scanner and wow effects
This week's five new Figma plugins.
Figma Plugin Weekly is like the Academy Awards of plugins… Only we bring you the best of the best every single week, instead of once a year.
In this issue there’s a great new tool to streamline your content design, a plugin for detecting when design tokens aren’t being used and a couple cool effects you’ll want to add to everything.
And the Oscar goes to… 🏆
1. ContentFlow
Manage the stages of your copy creation in Figma.
ContentFlow is a great new text management plugin for Figma that helps improve collaboration between designers, UX writers and developers. The plugin includes real-time change tracking, content version history and intuitive status labeling. Its developer mode ensures finalized content is easy to access, while the smart organization tools let you search and filter text with ease. Perfect for keeping the copy of your Figma designs managed and in sync!
🎁 FREE
✍️ Easily manage and sync the copy in your designs
🚀 A boost of efficiency for text management in Figma
2. Relinky
Scan and replace missing design tokens.
Relinky helps you effortlessly find and manage unlinked design tokens and styles across your files, by scanning for missing text style variables, unlinked spacing in auto-layout frames and inconsistent corner radius, fill and stroke colors. You can either scan entire pages or specific components, group similar unlinked values and quickly select affected layers for easy updates.
The plugin also comes with real-time “Watch Mode,” automatically detecting unlinked values as you work. Results are neatly grouped, allowing you to navigate, replace and update missing tokens directly from the results panel. By regularly scanning your designs, you can help ensure design system consistency in Figma.
🎁 FREE
🔎 Scan designs for unlinked design tokens and styles
🔄 Quickly update missing tokens in a click
3. Ruri Shader
Create a liquid metal effect.
Ruri Shader can easily transform any shape, text or logo with a mesmerizing liquid metal effect. This plugin applies realistic reflections, smooth gradients and dynamic highlights to give your designs a fluid, metallic appearance. You can customize the intensity, color and motion of the liquid metal to achieve anything from a subtle chrome sheen to a dramatic, molten look. Perfect for creating high-impact visuals!
🎁 FREE plan 💰 Lifetime PRO plan for $26.99
🪩 Add a liquid metal effect to shapes in Figma
⚙️ Customize liquid effect, color, pattern repetition and more
4. Simple Stripes
Generate beautiful stripe patterns and backgrounds.
With Simple Stripes you can quickly create customizable striped patterns that are perfect for backgrounds, fills... Adjust the size, angle and number of stripes while adding and reordering colors to fit your design needs. With a live preview, you can instantly see changes as you tweak your pattern, and there’s also the option to randomly generate new stripe patterns if you want something fast.
🎁 FREE
🦓 Quickly generate cool striped patterns
⚙️ Customize colors, size, angle and more
5. Spacing Checker
Maintain a clean, consistent 4-point grid in your designs.
Spacing Checker helps ensure pixel-perfect designs by maintaining a clean and consistent 4-point grid. It detects misalignments in width, height, gaps, positioning and padding while offering an auto-fix feature to snap elements to the nearest valid grid value. Quickly navigate errors by clicking on flagged elements and easily undo fixes if needed. Simply select a frame or elements, run the check and keep your designs perfectly spaced with minimal effort!
🎁 FREE
↔️ Auto-adjust spacing between elements
✅ Keep designs perfectly aligned
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