12 Essential Plugins for Sketch
A list of plugins that will make your work in Sketch more efficient. All plugins are grouped in the following categories:
- Design System
- Performance optimization
- Accessibility
- Creativity
Design Systems
1. Sketch Manager
This plugin helps you speed up your Sketch workflow. Whether you want to change a Text Style or a Symbol, you can now all do it in one plugin. This makes managing your Design System as easy as it gets. The plugin makes it easy to keep your files tidy and organized. No more need to spend hours changing hundreds of names, just because you misspelled the top folder.
2. Sketch Style Inventory
Design means organization and structure. Sketch can be good in both aspects, but moving from exploration to structured layouts with text styles and unified colors is hard. Either you start clean files from scratch, or you use what you have and try to tidy it up. The Style Inventory is meant to help you with that. It gives you an overview of all your used styles and helps you to merge styles of similar layers into one.
3. Rename It
Sequentially rename layers in either ascending or descending order, use keywords to establish a naming convention based on current name and/or width, height, numeric sequence.
4. Merge Duplicate Symbols
This plugin will help you to merge symbols with the same name. Choose the one you want to keep and press OK. The other symbols will be removed, and all of their instances will be replaced by the one you chose to keep.
5. Symbol Organizer
Organize your symbols page, and layer list, alphabetically and into groupings determined by your symbol names. Also provides the ability to choose the granularity of the groups, layout symbols horizontally or vertically, set a maximum of symbols per row/column, reverse the layer list sort direction, sequentially rename duplicate symbols, gather symbols from other pages, and remove unused symbols (symbols which are nested in other symbols, or used as overrides, will NOT be removed).
6. Style remover
In case you generated styles you don’t actually need, you use this plugin to check which ones are not used and get rid of them in a click.
7. Style generator
Sketch Styles Generator allows you to select any amount of layers (text, shapes, or all of them at once), and generate multiple Shared Styles named exactly like the layer itself.
8. Lint for Sketch
Validate your designs against your defined design guidelines, within seconds Extract the rules To use this plugin, you just need a Sketch file with your design guideline. This is file which contains text styles and colors swatches defined. The plugin can extract all the typography cases and color rules from the guideline with a single click and store it as a JSON.
Performance optimization
9. Runner
Perform Sketch actions quicker with your keyboard. Launch, search, and execute.
10. Sketch Cache Cleaner
Deletes hidden Sketch history files that can take a lot of space on your hard drive and that you would probably never use.
Accessibility
11. Stark
Stark was created to enhance the accessibility of design. It’s a color-blind simulator + optimal contrast checker.
Creativity
12. Moodboard Builder for Sketch
Create beautiful moodboards in a single click with this Sketch plugin. Keep inspired.
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