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Comment by denysvitali | Hacker News Reader

Figma is cool, and I still can't believe that such a good product is free. Big kudos to them!

This is something that I've done with Figma, mind that I'm not a graphic designer and this was my first use of Figma: https://github.com/denysvitali/dev-portal-designs

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I couldn't even figure out how to draw a rectangle in Figma. Kudos to you!

I'm stupidly illiterate to online sarcasm without a /s involved, so if you're joking then my bad.

But, if you're not... You really don't know how to draw a rectangle? It's like the 4th icon in the top toolbar when you open a project. It's literally a square. With a tooltip that says "Shape Tools"... ._.

That was not sarcasm. I actually could not. I downloaded and tried to use Figma twice. Spent 10 minutes each time trying to draw a rectangle and failed miserably. I mean, I _can_ draw a rectangle. But the colours won't take effect. See in the screenshot below that I have a rectangle that should be filled with #C4C4C4 and stroked with black? Why doesn't my rectangle look grey with a black border?

https://imgur.com/TTrOC4S

It is far from free if you are doing serious work with it.

With a free account you can basically create a lot of content and export it in a vectorized format. Far better than the competition I would say.

Illustrator isn't free either, but AFAIK it doesn't even have a free version that lets you do 1/4 of the features of Figma.

Of course for the nice things you still have to pay, but I would argue that Figma already gives a lot of free features away

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