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🆕 Better stacks! Blurs on groups! Glass and fade combined! It’s update day! 🆕 First up, we’ve added min/max sizes, relative sizing, negative gap and z-index order options to stacks. Plus a whole bunch of smaller improvements, all based on your feedback. ↓

This is way easier now. ↓ skt.ch/beta

Your regular reminder that you can connect pretty much any agent to Sketch via the MCP server. It works locally, we don’t charge extra for it, and there are no limits. www.sketch.com/ai/

“No variants support is the only thing stopping me switching back to Sketch” Yeah, well, guess what? www.sketch.com/beta/

The prototype player is great for…playing prototypes, BUT! also for previewing changes you make in situ. Turn off Follow Selection to keep it pinned to your current selection. Now you can switch to something else, like a Symbol and see changes you make in context.

Your client doesn’t need to see the chaos on the “Don’t use” page. That’s what Previews are for. Pick the pages you want to share, get a link, give it a password (or don’t) and they can take a peek in any browser. We can’t make the feedback any better, though. Sorry.

Things you can do with corners in Sketch: - Round them on the Canvas (or in the Inspector) - Choose how smooth they are - Round them on boolean shapes - Set their radius to MAX (which sticks at any shape size) - Set them to Auto for perfect concentricity with their parent shape

Did you know you can copy a color from Sketch in your favorite format? Hex, RGB, HSL, SwiftUI, NSColor and UIColor (in their respective Obj-C and Swift flavors). We got ’em all covered. And we’ll remember what you picked for next time.

Depending on how the design crit is going, you can take one of two approaches in Sketch: 1. Filter for unread comments, detach the comments panel, click each comment to go to the relevant layer, make changes, hit resolve, respond politely. 2. Mark all as read.

When we shipped stacks last year, the most common request was “but what about overlapping cards or avatars?” Well, you can do those now! Give your stacks a negative gap and your items will overlap. You can even choose the order they overlap.

You ↳ Can      ↳ Nest           ↳ Here               ↳ Too

“When I add borders to my stack items it messes up my layout!” We got you. You can exclude them from the layout now.

You can give your items in your stacks a minimum and maximum size, so if they grow or shrink they stop at a sensible point. Naturally this only applies to items with a non-fixed size. If you fixed their size we’re going to assume you got that just right.

Two color picker tips for you: 1. Hold shift to select a color variable instead of a raw value. You have to be using a color variable to start with, of course. And you are, right?? 2. Scroll to make the loupe bigger so it’s easier to grab the right color in tight spaces.

Image backgrounds be gone! All it takes is one click. It’s fast, it’s accurate, and it all happens on your device. Go remove some backgrounds!

You can just… multi-paste things. (It works with Paste, Paste Over, and Paste and Replace.)

Oklab and Oklch gradients? Yeah, we got ’em. That’s it. That’s the post.

Sometimes you just want to paste a shadow, or a fill, or a border, or an effect… Luckily, you can! Use Option-Command-C to copy a layer’s properties, right-click another layer and choose what you want to paste. Also, holding Option while you paste replaces existing styles.

Connect your Sketch Workspace to Slack, paste a link to a document (or page, or frame, or preview…), and get a nice big preview right where you’re chatting. We’ve saved you a click, and possibly 2 minutes of your day. You can have that time back. You’ve earned it, champ.

ICYMI you can style borders independently in Sketch now. Or altogether. Whatever makes you happy!

Things you can do in Sketch now that you couldn’t do a week ago: 1. Give groups blurs 2. Add multiple shadows to frames (without fills) and groups 3. Use glass and fade simultaneously 4. Fade a layer with an existing lower opacity

Hey, I heard you’re looking for a detailed breakdown of all the stacks updates we just shipped? (If you didn’t ask, please just play along) www.sketch.com/blog/stacks-...

ICYMI — we just shipped Oklab and Oklch gradients, multi-paste, a better prototype player and biiiiiiig performance improvements for Symbols and replace Libraries. Take a look ↓ skt.ch/edinburgh

Now in beta: - Multi-paste - Oklab and Oklch gradients - A biiiig performance boost for Symbols - An even bigger performance boost for replacing Libraries - Lots - More - Small - Improvements Get all the details and a build at sketch.com/beta

We’re working on stacks improvements! What do you love about them? What bothers you? What tiny (or huge) improvements would you like to see? Tell us right here ↓