Sketch: graphic design for a digital world. Powerful tools and an elegant interface, in a single award-winning package. Because making beautiful things should be a joy, not a burden.
Sketch supports multiple fills, borders and shadows per layer; has powerful non-destructive boolean operations; smart pixel alignment; and makes exporting a breeze with automatic slicing and multiple resolution export.
Vector tools and basic shapes are the foundation; whether you are designing icons, websites, interfaces or anything else. Combine these into complex shapes with non-destructive boolean operations, leaving you free to edit them in the future, then apply advanced layer style options like multiple shadows, fills, gradients, noise, blending, background blurring, and more.
Sketch doesn’t just do shapes, of course. Imported images can be rotated, scaled, cropped and masked. The best-in-class text tool lets you add beautiful typography to your designs, using native font rendering, so you can be sure that text always looks 100% accurate!
Brand new to Sketch 3, Symbols allow you to reuse entire groups of content in multiple places in your design. Think of interface elements such as buttons, headers and footers. Change them once, and they update everywhere in your document.
Built for the Mac, Sketch supports OS X’s Versions and Auto Save, letting you focus on your work instead of hitting CMD+S. Keep your work safely in sync across multiple Mac computers with iCloud. And take Sketch full screen to maximise the size of your canvas.
All this power is deliciously baked into Sketch’s single-window interface. Everything is there, tucked away until you need it. A simple interface with powerful tools.
What’s New:
Version 49:
Enhancements:
Improved performance when copying and pasting large Artboards
Improved EPS import when using spot colors
Gradient points can now be inserted in the color picker with a single click, rather than a double-click
Layers dragged from the Layer List to the Canvas are now copied rather than inserting a bitmap layer
Unused Symbols imported from Libraries are now cleared when saving a document
Updated the look of the Text and Layer Styles in the Inspector
SketchTool will now wait for a plugin to finish running before printing its result
Introduced a new version of the scripting API that is cleaner and easier to use
The plugin API has been extended with support for Symbols
The preference to show the selected Artboard in Sketch Mirror has been moved to the iOS app
Slices can now be hidden from the Canvas via the View menu
Improved performance when moving and resizing layers
Improved SVG import when dealing with rotated and flipped elements
Improved the way that newly created Symbols are added to the “Symbols” page
Improved the performance of Symbol thumbnails in menus
Improved performance when working with Symbols in complex documents
Improved Replace With menus for nested Symbols to avoid them being replaceable by Symbols which contain them
You can now choose to send a Symbol master to the “Symbols” page on Control-click
Improved layout and descriptions for bitmap export options in the Save panel
When vector editing, you can bend a path segment by holding the Command key and dragging to create or adjust curves
Improved appearance of rounded corners in the vector editor by showing the outline of the original path
Improved snapping in the Vector tool when the Shift key is held for drawing straight lines
When using the Pen tool, a preview of new points will be displayed on hover
Added a new “Prototyping Tutorial” template
Added “Move to Top” option to the Arrange menu to send a selection to the very top of the Layer List
Improved performance when detecting missing fonts in a document
Arranging objects in a grid now respects their current position in the Canvas instead of reordering based on the Layer List
You can now opt-in to anonymous analytics tracking to help us improve Sketch
Copied CSS attributes now also include text alignment
Improved sorting of colors within the Find and Replace Color panel
Color properties have now been added to the Find, and Frequent Color menus
Improved the accuracy of inserting gradient stops on gradients
The Scissors tool now works with multiple selected shapes
Updated the iOS icon template with the missing Artboard size for the Spotlight icon
You can now choose to make PNGs interlaced on export
Bug fixes:
Fixed a bug where the Text inspector would not refresh properly when changing a text layer’s behavior from Fixed to Auto
Fixed a bug where layer previews in the Layer List would incorrectly show them as having a Shared Style
Fixed a bug where the Layout grid could appear on sub-pixels in rare cases
Fixed a bug where a grid could appear outside an Artboard and cover the entire Canvas
Fixed a bug where radial gradients wouldn’t appear correctly when exported as SVG
Fixed a crash that could occur when exporting a bitmap layer with a inner/outer border as SVG
Fixed a bug where SketchTool would fail to export a preview image from some documents
Fixed a bug where overrides could be lost when copying and pasting Symbol instances
Fixed a bug where detaching a scaled Symbol instance would not scale the attributes of the new layers
Fixed a bug where Symbol overrides would appear clipped if it was larger than its containing Artboard
Fixed a bug where the Layer List would not be updated when detaching Symbols from a Library
Fixed a crash that could occur when copying and pasting particular Symbols
Fixed a bug where the vertical position of centrally aligned text wouldn’t take into account any new lines caused by text transformations
Fixed a bug where text color wouldn’t be applied as a fill when converting text to outlines
Fixed a bug where a Text Style could be duplicated after pasting layers that use the style
Fixed a bug where inserting a new curved point in the vector editor wouldn’t snap its handle control points to 90º angles
Fixed a bug where the bézier curve preview when inserting a new point wouldn’t be accurate
Fixed a bug where inserting a new vector point with the Command key held after a Mirrored point would not update the handle control points
Fixed a bug where new layers could appear on the wrong Artboard after inserting with the Pen tool
Fixed a bug where exiting the vector editor would not update the cursor
Fixed a bug where the Zoom tool could display the wrong cursor
Fixed a bug where Undo actions could result in the current selection being dropped
Fixed a bug where the contextual menu would sometimes not be shown at all in the Layer List
Fixed a bug where resizing certain Artboards could freeze Sketch
Fixed a crash that could occur when selecting to uninstall multiple plugins at the same time
Fixed a bug where Library preferences could be lost when Libraries were synced and moved via Dropbox
Fixed a bug where the Smooth Corners option wouldn’t be enabled for shapes using multiple radius values if the initial value was 0
Fixed a bug where spaces could appear between the prefix/suffix and layer name on export
Fixed a bug where the Inspector could appear blank when dismissing the color popover
Fixed a bug where you couldn’t measure the distance from layers to guides anymore
