Three Figma plugins, zero TypeScript skills

Every project starts from scratch

I work at an agency. New projects come in often.

Every new one starts the same way: mood and tone, then project setup.

From scratch. Every time. The same work, again and again.

So I built my own Figma plugins, for me and my team:

• 🎨Momo Color Generator. One base colour in, a full palette out.
• 🔤Momo Template Text Style. Pick a font, get a set of text styles.
• 🧩Momo UI Kit. Colours, fonts, icons and components in one plugin.

Color Generator

Template Text Style

UI Kit

The slow part

I started with Color and Text Style.

Back then, AI was not very good.

So first I had to learn: how to prompt, which tools to use, how Figma’s Developer mode works, and how to run a plugin and publish it for others.

Then I prompted. And prompted.

It took a very long time. My prompts were weak, and so was the AI.

The company gave me the smallest AI team seat. I hit the usage limit every day.

A few months later

AI got much better.

Then I made the third one. I told it:

“I have two existing projects. Combine them into one.”

That became Momo UI Kit. Then I added icons, and more.

This time it went much faster.

Color Generator

Template Text Style

Momo UI KitColorsFonts

Who uses it

Only my colleagues at the office.

I promoted the plugins on LinkedIn. Nobody used them.

Each one is named after my cat, Momo. People at the office know the plugins, and they remember the cat’s name.

They use them because they really work.

My team lead told me they use them often.