Protyper

About this plugin

Protyper helps designers and copywriters centralize, edit, and reuse multilingual copy across their Figma files using Variables without breaking layouts, components or duplicating frames.

Important note: The plugin requires more than the Figma Free plan to fully benefit from multilingual features, as it relies on the variable modes available in your Figma plan to add additional languages.

What you can do with Protyper

🌍 Manage multiple languages from a single variable

Add as many languages as you need and switch between them in the plugin to preview and edit the corresponding copy. One variable, many translations and no duplication required.

🔁 Rebind text layers to existing variables

Select any text layer and bind it to an existing variable in seconds. You can also rebind layers later if the copy changes or needs to reference a different variable.

✍️ Create and edit text variables

Add new variables directly from selected text layers or edit existing ones at any time. Changes are reflected everywhere the variable is used.

🧹 Clean up unused variables

Remove text variables that are no longer used anywhere in the file to keep your collections tidy and maintainable.

🆔 Auto-generated IDs (fully editable)

Variable IDs are generated automatically for speed and consistency, but you can rename them at any time to match your own naming conventions or team standards.

⚡ Convert all visible text into variables with one click

From a single button, generate variables for all visible text layers within a selected container whether it’s a frame, a parent component, or a component set. Hidden layers are ignored to avoid clutter.

🧩 Works with frames, components, and instances

View and manage variables at the right scope. When selecting instances, Protyper keeps the broader context so you don’t lose sight of the full copy set.

🎯 Focus and navigation helpers

Jump from the plugin directly to the corresponding text layer on the canvas to edit copy faster in complex files.

Current limitations

To stay safe and compatible with Figma’s variable system, Protyper intentionally does not (yet) include:

1. Global variable mode switching from the plugin. Changing the active variable mode on the canvas must still be done manually in Figma.
2. Inline rich-text formatting inside variables. Styling parts of a sentence (e.g., bold words or underlined links) from within a variable is not supported.