Guide Mate is a Figma plugin which makes adding guides to your frames or shapes super easy. It provides shortcuts to add most commonly used guides and a form to add custom guides. It will be an excellent companion when you're working with grid based design systems.
Install it from the Figma Plugin Store.
- Select a frame, group or shape.
- Open Guide Mate from the plugins menu.
- Click on one of the icon in the shortcut panel to add left, right, top, bottom or midpoint guides.
- Enter details in the form and click on "Add Guides" to generate custom guides.
- At least one frame or group or shape should be selected before using the plugin.
- Multi selection is not supported. Instead, you can group the items and use the plugin.
- Any selected items should be inside a frame. Page level guides are not supported yet.
- Ability to add page level guides.
- Ability to pre-populate form will last used values.
- Ability to clear all input values with a click.
- Ability to save most used guide parameters locally.
Guide mate will be free forever. If you enjoyed Guide Mate, please consider buying me a coffee by pressing the button below. A small contribution will encourage me to work on more cool things.
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