How Do I Export Figma Tokens?

Figma tokens are a powerful tool for designing user interfaces and web applications. They allow you to quickly create, organize and share components, styles, colors and more across multiple projects. With Figma tokens, you can create a consistent design language throughout your entire product suite.

But once you’ve created your tokens in Figma, how do you export them? Exporting your tokens enables you to use them in other platforms for even more control over their appearance and functionality.

The best way to export Figma tokens is using the “Export” feature in the “File” menu. This will generate a .zip file of all of your token assets, including images, graphic styles and text styles. You can also choose to export individual assets or groups of assets as needed.

Once the file has been generated, unzip it and open the folder containing all of your token assets. From here you can drag-and-drop any of the individual files into other applications such as Sketch or Adobe Photoshop for further customization or use in other projects.

If you want to take advantage of Figma’s powerful library system, there is an additional step required before exporting tokens into other applications: creating a library of the token assets in Figma first. To do this, simply select all of the token assets that you want to include in your library and drag them into the “Libraries” panel on the left side of the Figma window. From here they can be exported as a single .fig file which can be imported into Sketch or Adobe Photoshop for further editing or use in other projects.

Now that we know how to export our Figma Tokens let’s explore some additional tips for making sure our tokens look great when we use them elsewhere:

  • Name your components – Make sure that each component has a meaningful name so it’s easy to identify what it is when importing it into another application.
  • Organize by type – Group similar types of components together so they are easier to find when importing into another application.
  • Use color swatches – Use color swatches rather than individual color values when creating components so that they are more portable across different applications.

Finally, keep an eye out for updates from Figma! The team at Figma is always adding new features and improvements that will make exporting your tokens even easier!

In conclusion, exporting Figma Tokens is possible with just a few simple steps – using the “Export” feature from within the “File” menu, creating a library if needed, and following best practices when organizing components and using colors swatches. With these tips in hand you should have no problem taking advantage of all that Figma has to offer!