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

npm install

Watch the plugin in development

npm run dev

Or build the plugin for production

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)