Sketch Styles Hierarchy Plugin

Organize your shared styles using the layers list, create a hierarchy where children inherit properties from their parent.

Installation

Requires Sketch >= 53

• Download the latest release of the plugin
• Un-zip
• Double-click on sketch-styles-hierarchy.sketchplugin

Usage

• You run the setup command which creates 2 new pages: Text Styles and Layer Styles.
• Then you use the layer list and the inspector to manage the shared styles.

Let’s say you have 4 text styles: Button/Primary, Button/Secondary, Header/H1 and Header/H2. You should have 2 groups: Button and Header with 3 text layers in each: Primary (or H1), Secondary (or H2) and __default.

You now have multiple possible actions (each triggered after changing the selection):

• rename a group to rename all the children (eg. renaming the Header group to Heading will change Header/H1 to Heading/H1 and Header/H2 to Heading/H2)
• rename a layer to rename the shared style
• create a new Group (eg. creating a new Group called Inverted from Button/Secondary will rename Button/Secondary to Button/Inverted/Secondary and create a new __default layer)
• drag and drop layers in the hierarchy to rename them
• delete groups or layers to delete the Shared Styles
• create new layers to create new shared styles

Now you might wonder what the __default layers are for, and that’s where the magic comes in ✨

• select a __default layer and press cmd + shift + , to be able to select which style properties its children should inherit (the __default is linked to a group, so the children are the children of the parent group of the __default layer)
• then, every time you change the __default style, the children will change as well