Fix all your transparency inconsistencies
in one click

Fix all your transparency inconsistencies
in one click

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Designers operate in a world of visual precision. Yet, even in the most meticulously crafted projects, subtle inconsistencies can surface. One of the most common, and often overlooked, issues is Color Transparency.


When a color is not a solid 100% opacity, it introduces a hidden variable that can create a ripple effect of problems.

Designers operate in a world of visual precision. Yet, even in the most meticulously crafted projects, subtle inconsistencies can surface. One of the most common, and often overlooked, issues is Color Transparency.


When a color is not a solid 100% opacity, it introduces a hidden variable that can create a ripple effect of problems.

Prelude

Prelude

Luminary is a Figma plugin built to guarantee design integrity. It's a tool that automates the tedious work of finding and fixing color opacity issues, ensuring your designs are clean, consistent, and production-ready.


The plugin's core function is to find every instance of a transparent color and provide a technically accurate, one-click solution.

Luminary is a Figma plugin built to guarantee design integrity. It's a tool that automates the tedious work of finding and fixing color opacity issues, ensuring your designs are clean, consistent, and production-ready.


The plugin's core function is to find every instance of a transparent color and provide a technically accurate, one-click solution.

The Luminary

The Luminary

/ˈluːmɪn(ə)ri/

/ˈluːmɪn(ə)ri/

Professional color whisperer

Professional color whisperer

spent

chai nashta

- ₹547

udhari

- ₹826

gadi ka hafta

- ₹2,490

4,032

August 2025

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#FF0004 70%

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for example

Consider this card design

You might not notice it, but this perfectly looking design has

few issues in it.

Fire Luminary

spent

chai nashta

- ₹547

udhari

- ₹826

gadi ka hafta

- ₹2,490

4,032

August 2025

#0EC067 5%

#0D4715 40%

#0D4715 50%

#FF0004 70%

#FB4C4D

#86A38A

#F3FCF7

#9EB5A1

Restart?

spent

chai nashta

- ₹547

udhari

- ₹826

gadi ka hafta

- ₹2,490

4,032

August 2025

#0EC067 5%

#0D4715 40%

#0D4715 50%

#FF0004 70%

#FB4C4D

#86A38A

#F3FCF7

#9EB5A1

Before

After

Ta-da!!!

What luminary solves?

What luminary solves?

Design System Integrity

A brand color defined in a style guide at 100% opacity, when used at 80% on a button or background, effectively creates a new color. This breaks the single source of truth for your design system and can lead to a messy color palette.

Design System Integrity

A brand color defined in a style guide at 100% opacity, when used at 80% on a button or background, effectively creates a new color. This breaks the single source of truth for your design system and can lead to a messy color palette.

Hello World

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Developer Handoff

Engineers rely on clear, consistent values. When a transparent color is handed off without a solid hex code, it can lead to misinterpretations and visual bugs in the final product.

Hello World

Some description

Developer Handoff

Engineers rely on clear, consistent values. When a transparent color is handed off without a solid hex code, it can lead to misinterpretations and visual bugs in the final product.

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Export

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Export and Production Issues

The way a transparent color renders can vary across different file formats and platforms, potentially causing visual discrepancies between your design file and the final asset.

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Export

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Export and Production Issues

The way a transparent color renders can vary across different file formats and platforms, potentially causing visual discrepancies between your design file and the final asset.

So…

So…

Luminary began as a personal side project, driven by the persistent frustration of time lost to manual color correction and fixing transparent fills that compromised design system integrity.
The initial version was a simple script—a proof-of-concept aimed at automating this tedious, non-creative task. Through multiple iterations, the plugin underwent a significant technical refinement. The core challenge of accurately identifying and blending with an element’s true background color was solved with a sophisticated, intelligent algorithm.
This leap, coupled with refining the UI into a clean, professional interface, transformed the script into a stable, usable tool. Luminary is a testament to iterative design, born from necessity, and its long-term goal is a public release to empower the wider Figma community to achieve color consistency with a single click.
Luminary began as a personal side project, driven by the persistent frustration of time lost to manual color correction and fixing transparent fills that compromised design system integrity.
The initial version was a simple script—a proof-of-concept aimed at automating this tedious, non-creative task. Through multiple iterations, the plugin underwent a significant technical refinement. The core challenge of accurately identifying and blending with an element’s true background color was solved with a sophisticated, intelligent algorithm.
This leap, coupled with refining the UI into a clean, professional interface, transformed the script into a stable, usable tool. Luminary is a testament to iterative design, born from necessity, and its long-term goal is a public release to empower the wider Figma community to achieve color consistency with a single click.

What's next?

What's next?

The future of Luminary is its evolution into a Full-Blown Design System Assistant. The goal is to scale beyond color correction to enforce comprehensive system compliance across entire design files.

The core of this next phase is the advanced Two-Way Fix mechanism: correcting inconsistencies either with a solid value or by intelligently mapping the non-compliant style to the correct Design System Token (Color, Text Style, Spacing, or Effect).

This expansion will focus on three key areas of quality assurance:

  • Expanded Style Enforcement: Automatically fixing unlinked Typography, non-standard Spacing/Layout values, and local Effect overrides.

  • Component Integrity: Detecting and repairing Detached Instances to ensure a clean component hierarchy.

  • Quality Metrics: Introducing a quantifiable Design System Health Score to provide a clear metric for file cleanliness and 100% production readiness.

The future of Luminary is its evolution into a Full-Blown Design System Assistant. The goal is to scale beyond color correction to enforce comprehensive system compliance across entire design files.

The core of this next phase is the advanced Two-Way Fix mechanism: correcting inconsistencies either with a solid value or by intelligently mapping the non-compliant style to the correct Design System Token (Color, Text Style, Spacing, or Effect).

This expansion will focus on three key areas of quality assurance:


  • Expanded Style Enforcement: Automatically fixing unlinked Typography, non-standard Spacing/Layout values, and local Effect overrides.

  • Component Integrity: Detecting and repairing Detached Instances to ensure a clean component hierarchy.

  • Quality Metrics: Introducing a quantifiable Design System Health Score to provide a clear metric for file cleanliness and 100% production readiness.

Fin.

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