Construct it in Figma: Create a Design System — Foundations



Create your type information, sort scale, and model coloration scheme and switch them into shared kinds, grids, and typography to kick off designing a design system from scratch.

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50 thoughts on “Construct it in Figma: Create a Design System — Foundations”

  1. Does anyone know why he's increasing or decreasing the spacing by percentage because 'it might not maintain the right relationship doing -1, because that's a fixed value.' What does this mean? Maintain the right relationship to what?
    Thanks!

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  2. I have checked his file and I found out that the line height of the Bold is set auto.

    Why are line height of Body and Small typo style are set? Although others are auto.

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  3. For some reason, i felt people work in Figma always choose to use bigger font size. However if you look at the website, even this website, you will see the base case is 14px. Not only that, the <h1> is only 20px. Shocking?

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  4. Why does he keep copying the 16px font and multiplying so many times instead of copying the last created font and simply multiplying it once? You know what I mean?

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  5. just a STYLE GUIDE VIDEO…NOT a design system at all. Terrible that people look at these things for expertise. It is why the field is polluted with people like this.

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  6. I have a question about the font size choices – If you end up just adjusting the font sizes to 14/16/24… and so on then what's the point of doing all of the multiples of the Golden Ratio? Shouldn't there just be a standard font size and line height that is always used in any application or design system?

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  7. Does Figma allow for text style overrides similar to sketch for attributes besides color like weight, capitalization, italics, etc? Would like to avoid creating alts if possible.

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  8. Answer to is there a Shortcut to Half or Double font sizes (actually any ratio is possible).

    Short answer YES
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    I used to use Adobe Illustrator a lot and when I started using Figma, I instinctively tried a trick a I used to use.

    Double. click the Font Size in the properties., or click after the last digit. Simply type the equivalent mathematical symbol
    Multiply is *
    Divided is /
    +, – speak for themselves

    Then type the number relating to what you want it to do. Use a comma between numbers for things like half. Such as 0,5

    Example

    My font is 16
    I write

    16 /2
    Hit enter/ return on keyboard
    It changes to
    8

    I want my line height to not be auto.
    I type:
    16*1,5

    Hit Enter

    It switches to
    24

    Or type

    32/2

    Enter

    It becomes 16

    Etc….

    I use this all the time for quickly making spacers using scales, taking a frames dimensions and dividing it by 5 to give me that divided by 5 design ratio.
    Working out corner radii for containers with a certain amount of padding between them and the round cornered inner element; inner radius + padding = outer radius perfectly concentric.

    Maths stuff, but really simple, useful maths stuff!
    Explore and see how you can use just typing equations behind numbers in the RHC.

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  9. He has the knowledge but he is impossible to listen to. It's like he's going out of his way to be "cool" and approachable, rather than owning the fact that he's giving a class with the goal of teaching people a specific skillset. Speak with authority and for god's sake stop the "uptalk".

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