Figma Style Unifier

After finishing your first defining layout frames intuitivly and innovativly, without using style-presets, you can start to craft your unique design system with our style unifier plugin. In the end your system will only have the styles you need. It will be highly effective to work on all subpages and future extensions of your layout. This also works when you kick-start your design process by using a layout or template that does not use a design system.

Set the scope to all frames and select a parameter. The best to start with is font size. Then hover over each value row. As you do so, the included elements are highlighted within your layout. Check for ones with low element counts or too similar values. To remove those unwanted similarities you first have to join two or more value-rows into a value-group.

You can do so by cutting and pasting a row, above or below an other value row, and then setting their target value. You could now unify this group directly, but it is better to first do all your grouping, and later unify them all at once. Another way of grouping multiple rows, specially when they are allready consecutively, is to use the join with group below action. Once all groups and targets are set you can easily unify them by clicking on the button: unify all groups to their targets.

Repeat that for each parameter.

As soon as you have created a unified, dynamic and harmonic set of element values in each parameter, you can easily create your set of local styles.

Return to the font size parameter. As now each row here, with all their internaly connected font parameters, represents a style in your design system. In rare cases you might want font styles that share the same font size but have differeing subparameters to be different styles in your design system. For these cases we off there function: split by differing parameter. But this is not the case here. Now to actually convert them to become figma local styles you just need to click on the "Create styles from all rows"-button. You will see them appear in the local styles panel where you can give them your own naming convention.

Creating styles from the colors in your layout is even easier. Check if you unified them enough and then click "Create styles from all rows", rename them in the Color styles panel and you are done. Then connect your stroke colors to those new styles. Use our targeting system and you will see the local styles in the color color picker. That way you can easily connect them with the value groups by using the unify all groups to their targets button.

You made it! You distilled a unique design system out of a few frames, with only the styles you need. It is easily extendable and highly effective for all future work on your project.

You need to match the styles of new elements to your design system? Here is how you can do that quickly with our style unifier plugin:

Let's say you want to merge the styles of this section to your layout. If the core color scheme of the new section needs to be inverted, you can easily do this with the free plugin called Dark me. Either click dark me or apply full inversion, depending if you want to switch to a dark or a light theme. Once this is set select the new element. Best way to do that is by placing it into a frame and selecting it. Then open our plugin panel and make sure you set the scope to current frame.

Now start by selecting the first font paramater: font-size. Hover over the value rows to check which elements in your new section get highlighted. Then unify them to the most corresponding font style of your design system. In some cases you do not want to only rely on the font-size parameter to define, to which style the related elements should be unified to. In that case you can either switch to another parameter and continue the style swapping there or use our split by differing parameter function, to stay within font size and finish the style transfer process.

Now that you have gone through each of the parameters that way, you can switch to the color settings and start matching there.

Once this is done aswell, you can be sure you completly matched the new element to your design system.