Hey, guys! A quick question: is it possible to find a color variable? I have Tailwind lib added, and scroll through all the colors to find a specific shade is painful. Figma has a search inside Libraries tab. But maybe I don’t know about a similar feature in Sketch? I’m on the latest beta.
Hi Damian. The text resizing from the centre outwards is an unintended consequence of something relevant to Stacks and is not meant to present itself in a more basic situation like you have shown. We are looking into resolving this, thanks.
You can search inside of specific Libraries only very easily. Just select the Library you want and your searches will be constrained to only that selection.
I have one more thing to mention. In every previous version, when scaling an object, it remembered the last anchor point setting. So, when moving on to the next object to scale, it would retain that setting. Now, it seems to default to “Scale from top left” every time. Is there a way to restore that “memory” feature for this function?
It really made scaling multiple objects in a row much easier and faster. Now, instead of just adjusting the percentage or width and height, I have to change the anchor point each time. Thank you in advance!
Thanks for your explanation I clicked on the color picker - it was the problem.
There’s a new beta out that fixes it, our apologies.
Not at this moment, I’m afraid.
I’m frequently encountering two issues (I’m on Version 2025.1 (203044)):
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Colour Variables The displayed title of the selected colour (“Color”) often does not reflect the actual colour in use. When opening the colour picker popover, the active selection (“System Blue”) also does not match the applied colour. You can see the Border colour is accurately reflected (“3 Tertiary”)
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Corner Radius Display The corner radius values shown in the inspector often don’t match the actual corner radius of the element on the canvas.
Are these known issues?
When a frame has a corner radius and ‘Clip content’ is enabled, a subtle rendering artefact appears where background pixels bleed through along the curved edges. This occurs regardless of whether the corners are set to smooth or rounded, and is more pronounced in certain scenarios, particularly with high-contrast colour layers or semi-transparent backgrounds. It suggests the masking may not be fully aligned with the visual boundary of the corner radius.
This issue is not visible (or is less pronounced) when masking things the old-fashioned way.
I’m running into some inconsistent behaviour with text resizing in Symbols. The text label inside the Symbol is set to Fit
, but when I select it in the Symbol instance, the Fit
option is either unavailable, shown but disabled, or replaced by a different state entirely. This doesn’t happen with text layers outside of Symbols, where Fit
behaves as expected. Overall, the state logic and picker feel finicky and unreliable. It’s difficult to tell whether the layer is inheriting the correct setting or if something’s overriding it behind the scenes.
Hey Jordan, thanks for bringing this to our attention. I’ve just reported the issue to the team. We will investigate and fix it as soon as possible.
@jordanborth They’re not, actually. We haven’t seen these before. If you could tell us how you manage to make these occur, or if you have a document where they’re consistently occurring, could you please shoot us an email to productsupport@sketch.com? Thanks!
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Hi everyone! I’ve updated Sketch to version 2025.1 (not beta) — really loving the changes so far! However, I have a couple of questions:
- Is there a hotkey to open the Insert Symbol interface?
- Is it possible to convert a frame from the Symbols page into a Graphic? All my icons are currently frames, but Graphics would suit them better. I couldn’t find such an option.
Thanks - you’re the best, as always, Sketch!
Hi Dmytro!
The answer is Yes! To both questions:
- Press Y to launch the Command Bar ready to insert symbols
- To change a frame to a graphic, select the frame then use the pulldown button on the Inspector and select Graphic, see the image below:
Thanks for the tips! There’s a small issue when changing frames to graphics - for some reason, the name changes to “Symbol”. That might break the design system. What I’m doing wrong?
You’re not doing anything wrong, I’m afraid that’s a bug, we’re going to look into it, my apologies.
What happened to the “Select group’s content on click” option in version 2025.1?
Hi @Paulius, that option has been removed.
@paulozoom
On your blog, you have an article that explains some details about the frames.
“Inserting a nested frame gives it a blue fill — this alternates between two shades, so multiple nested frames contrast.”
Was this feature removed, too?
No, it wasn’t removed. Maybe it wasn’t clear enough: it alternates based on the parent of the frame you draw. If you draw a new frame into an existing light blue frame, the new frame will be dark blue instead, so it contrasts against it.
That effect is what’s pictured the first of the two images in that screenshot from the post: