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While we'd love for everyone to have a pro licence to unlock the full power of the Plugin for Figma, the reality is that not every person working on a Tokens Studio powered project needs one. Generally speaking:
Designers maintaining Design Systems powered by Design Tokens would benefit from a pro licence.
Designers wanting to sync Variable Collections (with multiple modes) to a code repository would benefit from a pro licence.
Designers who require view only/read access to your Token projects do not need a pro licence.
Engineers inspecting Figma files requiring access to the Plugin do not need a pro licence.
Design systems teams who are scaling quickly may benefit from our more powerful tool, the Tokens Studio Platform, a dedicated Token management application.
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Below you'll find each of the features exclusive to pro licence holders and a breif description of what you can and can't do without a pro licence.
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The Themes feature in Tokens Studio allows you to define combinations of Token Sets that are intended to be applied together to style design elements. Under the hood, the Plugin creates a themes configuration file that can be shared with developers and used in code.
Multiple Themes can be applied at the same time to create a matrix of possible concepts that a single design element can be styled with. This is also known as multi-dimensional theming.
Here's the breakdown of what you can do with Themes depending on your licence:
Create a new Theme
Apply Tokens included in Themes to design elements in Figma
Update existing Theme
Toggle Themes on/off to apply styling to design elements in Figma
Delete a Theme
+ Everything free licence holders can do
The Themes feature creates additional data that can be shared with Figma, which unlocks several powerful workflows:
Connecting design tokens to Variable Collections with multiple Modes.
Styles attached to your Tokens can be managed in the Plugin or Figma.
Non-local Variable Collections and Styles that retain their references to a published libraries in a different Figma files by syncing your Themes to your external Tokens Storage provider.
Color Modifiers allow you to easily create consistent, scalable color systems by adjusting and blending colors with fine-grained control within Tokens Studio.
Modifying your Color Tokens is a powerful way to create dynamic color schemes.
For example:
Generate a color ramp from a single 'base color'.
Introduce subtle variations between interactive states.
Create new modified Color Tokens
Apply modified Color Tokens
Advanced color spaces - LCH, SRGB, P3, HSL
Create colors in Hex, RGB, RGBA, ARGB, HSLA
Edit existing modified Color Token
+ Everything free licence holders can do
If you are working with one of the supported Git sync providers, you can take advantage of version control workflows and advanced token storage options.
Here's the breakdown of what you can do with syncing to External Storage depending on your licence:
Sync Tokens as a folder with multiple files.
Sync Tokens to all Git providers.
Create a new branch in a connected Git repository.
Sync Tokens as a single file to any Git provider.
Switch between branches in a connected Git repository.
+ Everything free licence holders can do
Pro licence holders will notice additional navigation actions on the Tokens Page of the plugin. Selecting either the Token Flow or Second Screen icon buttons will open these features in a web browser to unlock additional ways of viewing the relationships between Tokens.
Free licence holders will not see these icon buttons.
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