Generate a color palette documentation

Learn how to create comprehensive documentation of your color palette (or primitives) accessible from your Figma document.

1

Generate a document of the palette

Once the palette is finished, you can generate complete documentation of every shade and tint. Click the icon in the bottom bar, then select Generate a document to access the available document types.

As many documents as color modes will be generated.

You have 3 types of documents:

• Palette with properties displays a palette composed of shades/tints with a few related metadata:

  • The color shade/tint name (according to the chosen lightness scale preset)

  • The hexadecimal code

  • The selected Color space values

  • The WCAG 2.1 contrast score with a recommendation

  • The APCA contrast score with a recommendation

• Palette displays every shade/tint without any metadata

• Color sheet displays a sheet composed of shade/tint with the full related metadata:

  • The color shade/tint name (according to the chosen lightness scale preset)

  • The color shade/tint description

  • The hexadecimal code

  • The selected Color space values

  • The WCAG 2.1 contrast score with a recommendation

  • The APCA contrast score with a recommendation and every minimum font size according to the weight

The palette is instantly created close to your view.

Avoid editing the palette directly on the document canvas. The frame named "_colors﹒do not edit any layer" is by default locked to avoid any updates by hand.

The palette will be named as referred:

paletteName・paletteColorMode・presetName・colorSpace

2

Update a document if the palette has been too

Once you update your palette, click the icon in the bottom bar, then Push updates to the document. The document will receive the updated metadata, shades, and tints.

Each time you update, each time you store an updated backup.

3

Update the document layout

When a document is selected on the canvas and recognized as a "UI Color Palette", you can choose another layout of the list of 3 types (see Generate a document of the palette). Once selected, the document will transform its layout.

4

Open a palette from a select document

When a document is selected on the canvas and recognized as a "UI Color Palette", the controller allows you to access the related palette by clicking the Open document button.

Keep in mind, this is a shortcut because a document is an instance of the palette. It works like the Figma component flow model (master-instance).

5

Restore a palette

When a document is selected on the canvas and recognized as a "UI Color Palette", but the Local Master palette has not been found on the current page, you can store the palette from a backup stored in the document by clicking the Restore palette button.