29thfloor / quire-figma-faker

Quickly generate realistic placeholder text in Figma

Figma Faker Plugin

Quickly generate realistic placeholder text. Names, emails, URLs, headlines, and more. Faker is built on top of faker.js.

Data Included

• Names
• Addresses
• Companies
• Phone numbers
• Dates
• Lorem Ipsum
• Internet text
• Commerce text
• Finance text
• Random text
• Computer system text
• Hacker text

Usage

• Install it from the Figma plugin library
• Select one or more objects
• Open the plugin and select a placeholder text option
• Any text nodes in the selection will be replaced with the Faker text of your choice

Development

First clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/coryetzkorn/figma-faker
cd figma-faker

Install dependencies & build files

npm install
npm run build

After that open a project in Figma Desktop, select Plugins -> Development -> New Plugin. Click Choose a manifest.json and find the manifest.json file in this plugin directory.

Done! Now access via Plugins -> Development -> Faker

To-do

• Better / more human date formatting
• Add support for placeholder images

Author

Cory Etzkorn (Twitter)