#Config2023 Launch 2: Variables You can now use variables to make adaptable designs—we’re talking different brand themes, device formats, and more. And yup, variables can be exported as tokens in case that’s helpful 😉. 👇 See variables in action

🌈 Adapting to change Variables can be colors, numbers, or strings and they can have different values across multiple modes—unlocking light and dark mode, and much more.

📏 Design in another dimension With number variables, you can now apply them to width/height/padding and more to actually switch between different layouts.

🌎 Localization in one click And with string variables, you can include and swap between content in multiple languages for truly global designs.

👩‍💻 API to get serious We’ve updated our API documentation to help you scale design systems management. 👉 Variables plugin API: 👉 Variables REST API (read and write, Enterprise plan only):

🛠 Plugins to help you along the way Our developer advocates @jak___e and @actuallyakbar have published a number of plugins to help you get started. 👉 Variables import/export plugin: 👉 Styles to variables converter:

Start scaling your designs and try out variables in the playground file! Feature availability differs by plan.

where can I find more information on "variables can be exported as tokens" will variables be exportable to gitlab to be directly ingested by devs ?

All you had to do was implement a feature that could publish designs to live web pages. That's all we asked for for God's sake

Is this like a Figma Styles 2.0? What happened to the Figma Style icon? Are all Figma Styles automatically upgraded?

As exciting as it looks… when you try it it feels halfbaked ☹️ so halfbaked it is indigestible. Zero support for component properties that were announced just a year go. I hope this will be addressed but this is huuuge bummer.