🛠️ Editor Quality Updates

We know subtle changes can have a big impact on your flow. Here’s 30 features, improvements, and fixes we launched to the editor. Check out the Community file to see them in action.

• We redesigned the stroke panel for easier customization of vector objects

• You can now use math operations to adjust properties with a mixed value

• Copy as PNG is now available in the browser (it was previously only available in the desktop app)

• You can now hold ⌘/Ctrl while resizing an image to crop it immediately

• We’ve made some improvements to text exporting: 

• We’ve added an “include bounding box” export setting in the Editor, and corresponding use_absolute_bounds setting in the Plugin API

• “Contents only” export is now called “Ignore overlapping layers”

• You can now select stroke properties before using the pencil tool

• The pen and pencil tools remember stroke settings for future use

• We’ve redesigned the hand tool to be less intrusive

• Preferences are now automatically synced across all tabs you have opened

• A second fill added to an object is now a solid fill color, rather than a gradient

• You no longer need to click on adjustment sliders to start using them

• You can now close the “Move to project” dialog box by clicking outside of it or pressing Esc

• Copying and pasting text with a missing font now activates the global A? missing font icon

• When you copy stickies from FigJam to other places as text, the text copied is sorted to match the layout in FigJam

• The missing font dialog now shows affected layers

• We increased the hit target size for the top menu entry point

• You can now open selected links using middle-click

• Our repositioning buttons (like Align To Top) are now active even when you edit text

• You can now pan over links without being interrupted when you encounter link pop-ups

• We’ve adjusted the size of the selected text background when renaming a file

• Figma no longer ignores when you paste an image while text editing. Now, it exits text editing and pastes it

• Icons in the Layers panel now reflect what objects they represent faster

• We added the “+” option for text nodes with mixed styles, allowing you to override them with a new style or color easily

• When a user zooms using “Z”, we no longer show the selection rectangle to other people in the file

• Scrubbing fields by holding ⌥ and moving your mouse now works in Safari

• We added a hover state for frame presets

• We fixed how drag handles display on grid property rows

• Right click menu doesn’t dismiss so eagerly on Safari

• When you create a new ruler, it will now be automatically selected, so you can nudge it with your keyboard or delete it

• We resolved an issue with opening the toolbar dropdown in View Only mode

• We’ve made the layers panel scroll to find the selected layer when using selection keyboard shortcuts