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Our prototype player has a couple of neat updates: there's an option to keep the window on top of any others, and you can now choose if its contents change with your selection or stick to a specific frame. 🧵 ↓

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Speaking of pasting, you can now copy and paste pretty much any property from a layer — including size, position and prototyping interactions. All you need is ⌘⇧C. 🧵 ↓

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Next: multi-paste. You can now paste, paste over, or paste and replace across multiple frames, groups or layers in a single action. Paste behavior in general is also just a bit more predictable. 🧵 ↓

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Sketch @sketch.com · 21/05/2026

🆕 A small-but-mighty update, full of good stuff™ for you! 🆕 First up — perceptual (Oklab) and vibrant (Oklch) gradients. Standard RGB blending can get a little muddy, but now you can have your gradients look smoother or more punchy. 🧵 ↓

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In order to create a variable, you need to define what color it is first, which is why the option to create is next to where you pick a color. You should be able to delete a variable when you right-click on it, providing it’s from that document and not a Library.

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Sketch @sketch.com · 21/05/2026

The option still exists — I’ve highlighted it on your screenshot. Regarding your second point, is there a specific use case for having color variables in the custom pane, or more that you’d rather have one less click?

Sketch @sketch.com · 19/05/2026

If you hold ⌥ you should see an arrow when you hover that frame in the Layer list, clicking on that will take you to it!

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.

Sketch @sketch.com · 01/04/2026

🆕 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 🧵 ↓

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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.

A mockup of an enamel pin badge showing a classic Macintosh with a Sketch diamond, with the classic colors stripes on the side.

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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. 🧵↓

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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. 🧵↓

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[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.

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[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.

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[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 @sketch.com · 15/01/2026

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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Working in a team? You can share a Workspace, store all your files there, organize them in any way you want. Got high security needs? We’ve got BYOK encryption and you can even have a private cloud instance. ↓

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Sketch @sketch.com · 15/01/2026

One more time for those at the back — dev seats in Sketch are free. All our developer handoff tools are available in any browser to inspect documents, grab tokens and download assets. We’ve got a nice improvement coming soon as well 👀 ↓

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Sketch @sketch.com · 15/01/2026

And while they’re in the web app, they can leave comments (which you can see in the editor), try out prototypes and inspect designs — all for free! ↓