Sketch 44
Drumroll 🥁 ... Sketch 44 focuses on one of Sketch’s most fundamental features — Artboards. We’ve also added better support for missing fonts, dramatically improved resizing controls and added a great new feature to Sketch Cloud.
In addition there are over 40 other improvements, changes and bug fixes. Thank you for all of your feedback and suggestions — it’s what makes Sketch great. Explore all of the improvements yourself in our full list of updates and make sure to update to Sketch 44 🎉
Stark: The Color-Blind Simulator and Contrast Checker for Sketch
Stark aims to help designers think about and design with accessibility in mind right from the very beginning of the product building process. You can check your designs directly in Sketch, so you can quickly iterate on any areas that need to be improved.
Introducing Launchpad for Sketch
The team behind the popular Auto-Layout plugin has released a new tool to help you publish websites directly from Sketch, with no coding necessary! You can also add hover animations, and work as a team, among other features in their latest update.
Looper Plugin
This new plugin allows you to build beautiful patterns and illustrations out of your objects. By having control over every single detail when you duplicate layers or groups you can unleash your creativity. Check out the examples and see for yourself how cool this plugin is.
SVGito: Little Optimizations for SVGs
The improvements to SVGs in Sketch 43 inspired Peter Nowell to create a new tool for the community. It’s a web-app that optimizes SVG files. It helps designers and developers by automating a few improvements to SVGs that you would normally have to be done by manually editing the code. These improvements typically reduce an SVG’s complexity and file size, while retaining the same visual appearance. Check out the blog post to learn more and see how it works in action.
Flowchart UI Kit
This free UI kit boasts fully customizable and scalable vector elements with three pre-defined color themes for creating fast sitemaps and wireframes.
Sketch Communities Around the World
Discover events and communities near you in our growing list of meetups around world. Here are the latest events coming up:
- May 18 - San Francisco, USA 🇺🇸 - Sketch for Beginners Workshop
- May 20 - Perth, Australia 🇦🇺 - Sketch for Beginners Workshop
- May 23 - Boston, USA 🇺🇸 - Designing & Prototyping an App
- May 23 - Göteborg, Sweden 🇸🇪 - Sketch + React: Mixup Meetup
- June 3 - Los Angeles, USA 🇺🇸 - Sketch Basics Intensive Workshop
- June 8 - Montreuil, France 🇫🇷 - Sketch Meetup #5
- June 15 - Cambridge, UK 🇬🇧 - Inaugural Meetup
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