Design System Generator

About this plugin

This powerful Figma plugin automatically generates visual design system documentation by analyzing your local variables, text styles, paint styles, and effect styles. Create professional design guidelines that help your team maintain consistency and streamline the design-to-development workflow.

## 🚀 Why Use This Plugin?

### 🎯 **Automated Documentation**

- **Zero Manual Work**: Automatically extracts all design tokens from your Figma file

- **Always Up-to-Date**: Regenerate documentation whenever your design system changes

- **Comprehensive Coverage**: Captures colors, typography, spacing, effects, and more

- **Professional Output**: Creates polished, organized documentation frames

### 🎨 **Complete Design System Coverage**

- **🎨 Colors**: Hex, RGB, RGBA, HSL values with beautiful color swatches

- **📝 Typography**: Font families, sizes, weights, line heights with live text samples

- **📏 Spacing**: Margins, padding, gaps, border radius with visual guides

- **✨ Effects**: Drop shadows, blurs, inner shadows with live previews

- **📐 Flexible Layouts**: Organized sections or grid layouts

### 🛠️ **Customizable Output**

- **Selective Generation**: Choose exactly what to include in your documentation

- **Multiple Display Options**: Toggle between different information formats

- **Layout Control**: Organized sections or compact grid layouts

- **Title Pages**: Optional title pages and table of contents

## ✨ Features

### 🎨 **Color Documentation**

- **Color Swatches**: Beautiful visual color representations

- **Multiple Formats**: HEX, RGB, RGBA, HSL color values

- **Variable Names**: Display Figma variable names

- **Descriptions**: Include variable descriptions if available

- **Usage Examples**: Optional usage context

### 📝 **Typography Documentation**

- **Live Text Samples**: "The quick brown fox" samples in actual fonts

- **Font Specifications**: Family, size, weight, line height details

- **Text Style Names**: Clear labeling of each typography style

- **Complete Coverage**: All local text styles automatically detected

### 📏 **Spacing & Dimensions**

- **Visual Guides**: Actual-size visual representations of spacing values

- **Categorized Types**: Margins, padding, gaps, border radius

- **Pixel Values**: Clear numeric values for developers

- **Grid Examples**: Optional grid layout demonstrations

### ✨ **Effects Documentation**

- **Live Previews**: Sample elements showing actual effects

- **Effect Types**: Drop shadows, blurs, inner shadows, background blur

- **Detailed Specs**: Complete effect parameters

- **Visual Examples**: See exactly how effects look

### 📐 **Layout Options**

- **Organized Sections**: Clean, categorized layout

- **Grid Layout**: Compact grid arrangement

- **Title Pages**: Professional title and introduction pages

- **Table of Contents**: Optional navigation aid

## 🎯 Perfect For

### 👥 **Design Teams**

- **Design System Maintenance**: Keep documentation current with design changes

- **Team Onboarding**: Help new designers understand the system

- **Consistency Checks**: Visual overview of all design tokens

- **Client Presentations**: Professional design system showcases

### 💻 **Development Teams**

- **Design Handoffs**: Clear specifications for implementation

- **Token Reference**: Quick lookup of exact values

- **Implementation Guides**: Visual context for design decisions

- **Quality Assurance**: Verify implementation matches design

### 🏢 **Organizations**

- **Brand Guidelines**: Comprehensive brand system documentation

- **Design Audits**: Review and standardize design systems

- **Documentation Standards**: Consistent documentation across projects

- **Stakeholder Communication**: Clear design system presentations

## 🚀 How It Works

### 1. **Automatic Detection**

The plugin scans your Figma file and automatically detects:

- All local color variables

- All local numeric variables (spacing, dimensions)

- All local string variables (typography-related)

- All text styles

- All paint styles

- All effect styles

### 2. **Smart Categorization**

Variables and styles are intelligently categorized based on:

- Variable names and patterns

- Variable scopes

- Style types and properties

- Usage context

### 3. **Visual Generation**

Creates beautiful documentation frames with:

- Color swatches with specifications

- Typography samples with details

- Spacing guides with visual representations

- Effect previews with sample elements

- Organized layouts with clear labeling