Changelog
Follow up on the latest improvements and updates.
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UI Color Palette 5.0.5
Millésime 505
Key Feature
🎨 Enhanced user experience
- Smoother slider interactions: Improved simple slider fluidity for better responsiveness during color adjustments —Available on Figma, FigJam, Penpot & Sketch
- Quick color workflow: Created direct shortcut from Preview colors to Colors section in creation and editing modes for faster palette management —Available on Figma, FigJam, Penpot & Sketch
Improvements
🔧 Interface refinements
- Persistent selection guidance: Canvas color selection message now persists to help users understand the selection workflow —Available on Figma, FigJam, Penpot & Sketch
- Improved text clarity: Clarified various interface labels and tooltips for better user understanding —Available on Figma, FigJam, Penpot & Sketch
- Menu alignment: Adjusted sub-menu level positioning for better visual hierarchy —Available on Figma, FigJam, Penpot & Sketch
- Optimized layout: Reduced source colors column width for more efficient space usage —Available on Figma, Dev Mode, FigJam, VSCode, Penpot & Sketch
Technical Improvements
🔧 Development and reliability
- Focus management: Implemented alternative approach for button autofocus to improve accessibility —Available on Figma, Dev Mode, FigJam, VSCode
Bug Fixes
🐛 Technical fixes
- Input validation: Prevented incomplete hexadecimal color codes from being saved —Available on Figma, FigJam, Penpot & Sketch
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UI Color Palette 5.0.4
Millésime 504
Key Feature
🎨 Enhanced workflow efficiency
- One-click easing application: Apply distribution directly to the Lightness scale without manual adjustment for better discoverability —Available on Figma, FigJam, Penpot & Sketch
- Scale inversion capability: Added ability to reverse Lightness scale steps while preserving spacing between steps with organized section separator —Available on Figma, FigJam, Penpot & Sketch
Improvements
🔧 Interface enhancements
- Improved contrast score tags: Adjusted icon sizes for Locked and Closest tags across all editors for better visual consistency —Available on Figma, Dev Mode, FigJam, VSCode, Penpot & Sketch
- Flexible default color field: Made the default color name field flexible and stretchable for better usability —Available on Figma, FigJam, Penpot & Sketch
- Optimized preview actions: Preview actions now only appear when the preview is expanded, reducing interface clutter —Available on Figma, Dev Mode, FigJam, VSCode, Penpot & Sketch
- Enhanced action button consistency: Reversed primary and secondary action button order when no palettes exist in page/document for better consistency —Available on Figma, FigJam, Penpot & Sketch
- Keyboard navigation support: Added Escape key functionality to close dialogs with improved focus management for accessibility —Available on Figma, Dev Mode, FigJam, VSCode & Penpot
🛡️ Color palette protection
- Empty palette prevention: Prevented deletion of the last color to avoid empty preview states —Available on Figma, FigJam, Penpot & Sketch
- Smart default color handling: Default source color is no longer counted when other source colors are present —Available on Figma, FigJam, Penpot & Sketch
- Improved palette naming: Prevents empty palette names by automatically generating default names —Available on Figma, FigJam, Penpot & Sketch
Technical Improvements
🔧 Development and reliability
- Dialog button optimization: Fixed button sizing in compact dialog layouts for Dev Mode and VSCode —Dev Mode & VSCode only
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UI Color Palette 5.0.3
Better for New Comers
Key Feature
🎨 Enhanced color workflow
- Default source color: Automatically provides a default source color when creating new palettes, eliminating the need to start from scratch —Available on Figma, FigJam, Penpot & Sketch
- Improved section organization: Reorganized interface with "Scale" section positioned first and "Source" renamed to "Colors" for better discoverability —Available on Figma, FigJam, Penpot & Sketch
Improvements
🔧 User experience enhancements
- Enhanced custom color sets: Custom color sets are now prioritized first in the list with Custom 1-24 enabled by default for better accessibility —Available on Figma, FigJam, Penpot & Sketch
- Improved custom set defaults: Default custom sets now include 6 color stops instead of 2 for more comprehensive color palettes —Available on Figma, FigJam, Penpot & Sketch
- Better feature discoverability: Alpha mode moved to primary actions for improved visibility and accessibility —Available on Figma, FigJam, Penpot & Sketch
- Enhanced help system: Replaced ellipsis (…) icon with question mark (?) icon for clearer help identification —Available across all editors: Figma, Dev Mode, FigJam, VSCode, Penpot & Sketch
- Improved interface clarity: Added helpful tooltips for actions without labels including color spaces, vision simulation modes, and alpha mode controls —Available on Figma, FigJam, Penpot & Sketch
- VS Code integration clarity: Enhanced messaging to clarify that the plugin works with Figma's VS Code extension —Dev Mode only
🎯 Workflow optimizations
- Double-click resize reset: Double-clicking the resize grip now resets plugin size to default 600x600px dimensions —Available on Figma & FigJam
- Improved preview layout: Enhanced preview positioning to avoid covering section names for better visual hierarchy —Available across all editors: Figma, FigJam, Dev Mode, VSCode, Penpot & Sketch
- Field validation: Prevented empty or whitespace-only entries for color names and mode names —Available on Figma, FigJam, Penpot & Sketch
- Community palette access: Added entry point to explore and import community color palettes —Available on Figma, FigJam, Penpot & Sketch
📊 Technical and compliance improvements
- CSS4 color format support: Updated RGB and RGBA notation to CSS4 standards for modern compatibility —Available across all editors: Figma, Dev Mode, FigJam, VSCode, Penpot & Sketch
- Cookie consent improvements: Added close button for cookie consent dialog allowing users to continue without accepting —Available across all editors: Figma, Dev Mode, FigJam, VSCode, Penpot & Sketch
Bug Fixes
🐛 Technical fixes
- Safari text selection: Fixed text selection issues on Safari browsers for Sketch plugin users —Sketch only
- Linear distribution exception: Resolved exception error when selecting Linear distribution type while already on Linear —Available on Figma, FigJam, Penpot & Sketch
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UI Color Palette 5.0.2
Millésime 502
Improvements
📊 Enhanced analytics and monitoring
- Session replay implementation: Installed Mixpanel session replays for better user behavior analysis and debugging capabilities —Available on Sketch & Penpot
- Editor-specific event tracking: Enhanced analytics by differentiating events based on editor context for more precise usage insights —Available across all editors: Figma, Penpot & Sketch
🎨 User experience enhancements
- Document generation visibility: Improved document generation feature prominence by moving it to secondary level actions for better discoverability —Available on Figma, Penpot & Sketch
- Enhanced store access: Enabled direct store access from Sketch plugin for seamless user experience —Sketch only
- Accessibility scores enabled: Activated accessibility scores by default on first launch to promote accessible design practices —Available across all editors: Figma, Penpot & Sketch
🔗 Cross-platform integration improvements
- Unified branding consistency: Updated terminology from "Pro" and "Basic" to "/pro" and "/basic" for consistent branding across platforms —Available across all editors: Figma, Penpot & Sketch
- Enhanced /one plugin integration: Improved direct connection with UI Color Palette /one plugin on Figma for better user journey —Figma
Bug Fixes
🐛 Technical fixes
- Export component initialization: Fixed code initialization in Export component mounting to ensure proper default values —Available across all editors: Figma, Penpot & Sketch
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UI Color Palette 5.0.1
Millésime 501
Improvements
🔧 Enhanced stability and user experience
- Plugin window management: Keep the plugin window always on top in Sketch for better workflow continuity
- Pro feature guidance: Added informative tooltips when hovering over Pro restrictions to help users understand feature limitations and reduce confusion
- URL consistency: Updated "Pro" references to "/pro" throughout the interface for consistent branding
- Native tokens enhancement: Improved Native Tokens format to better handle theme management with global color sets per theme
🌐 Multi-platform consistency
- License verification sync: Improved license status verification across Penpot and Sketch plugins, ensuring consistent behavior with the Figma plugin
- Cross-platform navigation: Added direct link to UI Color Palette /one from UI Color Palette /figma for easier access to alternative licensing options
Minor Changes
🔧 Technical improvements
- Error reporting: Enhanced Sentry integration with unminified code for better debugging and issue resolution
- Analytics activation: Enabled Mixpanel events in production for improved usage insights
Bug Fixes
🐛 Critical fixes
- Dev Mode restrictions: Prevented palette creation in watcher/read-only mode (Dev Mode, VSCode) to avoid user confusion
- License management: Fixed infinite loading state after disconnecting a license key and improved license status verification
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UI Color Palette 5.0.0
Evolving Toward a Palette Ecosystem
Key Features
🎨 New plugins for the design ecosystem
- Sketch Plugin: UI Color Palette is now available on Sketch with nearly all core functionalities (swatches cannot be fully synced) → Try it out
- Penpot Plugin: UI Color Palette is now available on Penpot with nearly all core functionalities (tokens cannot be synced for now) → Try it out
📐 Advanced transparency management
- Scaling with transparency: Ability to scale a color while accounting for transparency for more precise gradients
🎯 Contrast customization
- Configurable contrast ratio: Set your desired contrast score to optimize accessibility in your color palettes
Improvements
🔄 Enhanced architecture
- Page-level palette creation: Create palettes directly at the page level instead of in nodes
- Simulation-theme linking: Color simulation and text colors linked to the current color mode
🎨 Enhanced management
- Reset lightness and chroma scale: Reset the scale of lightness and chroma for better control
- Palette management: Duplicate and delete palettes
- Easier preset switching: Improved interface for switching between color presets
📤 Export enhancements
- New code visualizer: New generated code visualizer
- Tailwind 4: Support for new Tailwind CSS v4 format
- DTCG Tokens: Export to Design Token Community Group format
- SCSS and Less variables: Export to CSS preprocessor variable formats
- OKLCH model: Added OKLCH color model in CSS exports
Minor Changes
🔧 Interface improvements
- Palette layout positioning: Moved palette layouts next to the palette name for better organization
- User preferences relocation: User preferences moved to the user menu level
- Acceleration settings: Separated speeds related to accelerations for more precise control
- Hue and chroma shifting: Swapped hue shifting and chroma shifting positions
- Color mode terminology: "Color theme" is now called "color mode" for consistency
- One-click code copy: Code can now be copied all at once with a single button
🔤 Generated document
- Martian Mono font: Changed default font to Martian Mono for better code readability
- Lexend font: Use for Lexend for secondary texts such as the description of the modes, colors, and palette
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UI Color Palette 4.3.0
Welcome Figma UI3
Key Feature
- Introducing Figma UI3 theme support across Dev Mode, FigJam, Figma, and VSCode editors
Improvements
- Added tooltips to icon buttons
- Enhanced tooltips with preview for Pro features
- Added onboarding section before highlights
- Added section about other products
Minor Changes
- Removed resize grip in VSCode
- Document backup when creating palette
Bug Fixes
- Fixed source color options placement
- Disabled palette migration in dev mode
Patch Figma plugin on VSCode
Bug Fixes
- Fixed the VSCode plugin adaptation and removed palette creation and editing in this context
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UI Color Palette 4.2.2
Patch & Shopify
Improvements
- Added the Lightning Design System (Shopify) preset
Bug Fixes
- Created the chroma property if it doesn't exist in the form of chromaShifting
Patch UI
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where dynamic dropdowns could sometimes freeze and become slow to render
- Fixed the delete button being available for themes in Free plan when it shouldn't be
- Added more spacing in framed messages for better readability
- Updated the empty state message when no palette is present on the page
- Improved naming convention for published palettes - untitled palettes will now use "[Author]'s UI COLOR PALETTE" format
- Fixed an issue where the relaunch button would incorrectly activate during settings load
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