Feb 27, 2020

Design Tools News #32

By Roy • Issue #32 • View online

That time of the month again! The latest curated news in the world of design tools for the month of February.

We’re getting to see more and more very cool Figma plugins these days. Other than that: some cute illustrations of people, stealing like an artist, and a utility to better understand the C in CSS.

Enjoy!

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Open Peeps — Hand-drawn illustration library

Create scenes of people with this Library for Sketch, Figma, XD, and Studio. You can use them in product illustration, marketing, comics, product states, user flows, personas, storyboarding, quinceañera invitations, or whatever you want! Now also available as a Framer package

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Color Theft — Color palettes from famous artists

With this online tool for desktop and tablet you can steal colors from your favorite artists and create your own palettes. What about some Andy Warhol, or Mondriaan? Lot’s of fun to play with :) 🔴🟡🔵

colortheft.com • Share

Figma Design Lint — Find and fix errors in your designs

A free and open source design linting plugin for Figma. The plugin finds and highlights missing styles (for type, borders, effects, fills, etc) and incorrect border radii values in the context of your designs. Let’s get consistent!

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Figma LottieFiles — Animations for your designs

Add animations to your prototypes! Drag and drop your very own dotLottie (.lottie) and Lottie JSON (.json) files, or access a library of 1000s of free Lottie animations.

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Brian Lovin

@brian_lovin

Just open-sourced a @figmadesign plugin to fetch and populate data from GitHub. The published plugin is private to our org, but hopefully the implementation is useful for anyone trying to build something similar 😊

https://t.co/CMj7L3uKaZ https://t.co/2HGzo9bU8L

8:42 PM - 21 Feb 2020

CSS Specificity calculator by Polypane

The C in CSS stands for Cascading, and that means it can get tricky sometimes to figure out what styles you defined actually get applied. For example, you can have a 1000 class names, but a selector with a single ID would still be more specific.

With this brilliant specificity calculator you can figure out what the level of specificity is, along with explanations!

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Flawless joins the Abstract team

Flawless is the app that allows you to get rid of visual bugs by comparing designs with iOS implementations. They have now joined Abstract, and that looks like a great match to me!

They wrote an extensive post on the acquisition, and get into open sourcing the original app and more.

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