Open Sketch to update now, or read the extremely long changelog entry, if you dare ↓
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150+ other improvements and fixes! Drop multiple images onto the Canvas and we’ll arrange them in a grid, control fills and borders in combined shapes, a more usable Color panel, and so much more.
A new eyedropper! Pick up and apply Color Variables, not just hex values, by holding ⇧. The loupe is more compact by default, and you can scroll to resize it.
Better corners, all round(ed)! Smooth corners look way better on squircles and capsules. You can choose how smooth they are and use the new "Max" option to keep them fully rounded at any size. Want to round corners on combined shapes? Sure!
Independent borders! Set borders per side on rectangles, frames, and graphics. All sides equally, a single side, or custom widths for each. Plus, set dashed borders to center neatly on corners.
Selection colors! Quickly view and adjust colors across your selection. Adjust one and every layer using it updates, even the same color with different opacities, if you want.
🆕 Things you've been asking us for 🆕
Selection colors, independent borders, corner smoothing controls, a new eyedropper with Color Variable support, and 150+ improvements and fixes.
Here's what's in our latest update — Dublin 🧵 ↓
A mockup of an enamel pin badge showing a classic Macintosh with a Sketch diamond, with the classic colors stripes on the side.
Thanks to the crazy ones, the misfits, and the rebels at @apple for the last 50 years — and happy birthday!
We quite literally wouldn’t be here without you all.
Wake up babe, new Sketch beta just dropped.
What's in it? Independent borders, selection colors, new color picker, corner smoothing controls, better corners for capsules/squircles, revamped Color panel, and 150+ improvements.
Try it out right here ↓
sketch.com/beta
More than ever, it's more about the journey than the destination ✨ Great work!
You share a design for feedback on one thing… and suddenly the conversation is about something else.
Sharing designs works best when you can set clear boundaries. We wrote about how previews — and bringing designs into tools like Slack or Notion — help keep things focused here ↓
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And in case you were wondering if you can do the opposite (take something in code and turn it into a design in Sketch)…yeah, of course you can!
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For those of you working with the Sketch MCP server, we just launched a skills repo! Our first skill, sketch-implement-design, takes a design in Sketch and turns it into production-ready code with 1:1 visual fidelity. Take a look → github.com/sketch-hq/sk...
When your design document is really just a JSON file on your Mac, and you’ve got a local MCP server to work with, it turns out you can do…a lot of useful things?
Here’s what we’ve been using the Sketch MCP server for ↓
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We’ve got plenty more to share with you this year — and we’re already working on what’s next.
Catch up on everything we’ve rolled out → skt.ch/changelog
Finally, we now support drag-and-drop organization for folders, documents (and even selections that contain both!) in the web app. Combine this with folders you can nest as many levels deep as you need, and you’ve got a lot of flexibility for organizing your work. 🧵↓
We’ve also added a full layer list for inspecting designs in the web app — making it easier to find layers, jump to them, copy links, grab CSS, or export your selection. There’s a handy new contextual menu, too. Also, you can invite the devs in your team to use this for free! 🧵↓
Next up — an all-new Slack integration. If you’ve ever shared a link to a document in your Workspace in Slack, you’ll know that… not much happens. Not anymore! Now you can connect your Workspace to Slack and get a nice preview. 🧵↓
You can protect your previews with passwords and set expiry dates, and choose if people can comment on and inspect your designs. More info over at: skt.ch/nhO96u1 🧵↓
We’re kicking off the year with four new features — starting with previews!
With previews, you can choose the pages and prototypes you want to share with clients, while keeping the rest of your document private. 🧵↓
Already using our MCP server to do fun stuff? We’d love to see it! Share it below ↓
If you want to get started with our MCP server, look no further, we got docs for you: www.sketch.com/docs/mcp-ser...
There you’ll find instructions for setting up our MCP server with Claude, Cursor, Codex, and more.
[5/5] Got an existing website but no design files? Point Claude at the repo and ask it to build out all the relevant styles, and even entire pages, in Sketch for you. Again, you can have Claude check its own work by using our MCP server’s get_selection_as_image tool.
[4/5] So far we’ve been talking about existing projects, but if you’re starting something new and aren’t hot on color theory, you can throw Claude an image and ask it to create a complimentary color palette based on it. Once you’ve got your colors, you can have Claude make them color variables, too.
[3/5] Maybe you’re building out an icon set or a particularly large Library. Either way, you can automate a lot of the organization and keep your documents tidy with little effort. In this case, we can use Claude to order things by name, rename layers, apply colors, and even create Symbols.
[2/5] If you’re mocking up a UI, you can use Claude to take the tedium out of swapping placeholder text with something more realistic. This works well if you’ve got Symbols with text overrides. If you’ve already got the text you need, Claude can use that in your designs, or generate some for you.
[1/5] If you’ve got a set of dark and light Symbols, you can build out your UI using one set, then have Claude build the same screen using the other set. There’s no crazy setup here, just point it to the right Symbols. With our get_selection_as_image tool, you can have Claude check its own work.
Sketch 🤝 Claude
Great with an MCP server
We shipped our MCP server back in October last year. Here are five (of many!) things we’ve been using it for 🧵 ↓
(We’re big Claude Code fans here, but you can use any MCP-compatible client)
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