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.
FEATURES:
- Simple but powerful interface, built from the ground up for OS X
- Optimized for Retina and non-Retina displays
- Powerful styling: multiple shadows, multiple fills, gradients, blending, blur, noise and more...
- Flexible boolean operations to combine simple shapes into complex shapes
- Artboards and Slices for exporting multiple images out of a single document
- Automatic export for multiple resolutions at the same time
- Unique Color (with RGB and HSB modes) and Font pickers
- Beautiful native text rendering and text styles
- Vector and pixel zoom; zoom in with infinite vector precision or see individual pixels
- Multi-stop and radial gradients editing right in the canvas. Powerful WYSIWYG rendering
- Shared Layer Styles that automatically update all associated layers
- Shared Text Styles for sharing font and paragraph info between text layers
- Powerful, easy-to-use Vector Tool
- A growing community of designers with fantastic resources available on the web
New
Vector editing now has support for editing multiple shapes at the same time
Text can now be styled to be uppercase or lowercase. This is a non-destructive setting which can also be made part of a Shared Text Style
Other Enhancements
Selected layers have new selection handles
Edit › Scale now remembers which corner you last scaled from
It's now easier to upload a document as a new share to Sketch Cloud
You can now easily unregister your copy of Sketch from under the Sketch menu
All legacy plugins have been moved to their own menu
Vectorize Selection has been removed from the bitmap editor
The vector editor now responds immediately when a modifier key is pressed, instead of waiting until the pointer moves
When editing an open path, the last point is now selected by default rather than the first point
When closing an open path by clicking on its first point, you can now continue to drag the point instead of immediately exiting the vector editor
Many improvements to snapping in the vector editor
When editing vectors, you can now add further layers to your selection without exiting the vector editor
Holding the Shift key when dragging vector points now locks their movement to one direction
Improves appearance of selected points in the vector editor
When hovering over a path in the vector editor, we now show exactly where a new point would be inserted on the path
When deleting a vector point, we now select the next point along the path instead of exiting the vector editor
Layers appearing outside a Symbol master's bounds can now also be selected by their visible area outside the Artboard
The warning dialog when flattening layers with necessary subpaths has been simplified
Performance
Improves performance when inserting and selecting layers in complex documents
Improves performance when using large blurs or background blurs
Improves the speed of Undo, especially in complex documents
Many further improvements to memory usage and rendering performance
Bug Fixes
Fixes a bug where network performance could degrade drastically when Sketch Mirror was active
Fixes a bug where the Mirror toolbar icon wouldn't update immediately to show an iOS device was available
Fixes a bug where shape previews in the Layer List would not update properly in rare cases
Fixes a bug where you could still interact with vector points when the Option key was held
Fixes a bug where holding the Command key in the vector editor would normally draw straight lines but not when closing paths
Fixes a bug where points in vector editing could appear blurry
Fixes a bug where it would be difficult to exit the vector editor by clicking outside it when zoomed in far
Fixes a bug where double-clicking a vector point when there was a multiple selection would make the wrong point curved
Fixes a bug where Command-dragging a handle control point to make it Disconnected would also make it stop drawing
Fixes a bug where undoing document color/gradient presets would not immediately be reflected in the popover
Fixes a bug where angular gradients would appear upside down when exported to PDF
Fixes a bug where Shared Styles would not always be correctly included in the undo history
Fixes a bug where Reducing File Size would fail to recognize some images in the document
Fixes a bug where using the keyboard to navigate layers would not refresh the Canvas
Fixes a bug where bitmaps wouldn't be trimmed after deleting portions of them in the bitmap editor
Fixes a bug where detached Symbols would revert to their original size
Fixes a bug where Shared Styles could not be updated when editing subpaths in the vector editor
Fixes a bug where detached Symbols end up distorted if the Symbol size was bigger than its contents
Fixes a bug where editing multiple layers could leave text layers in an inconsistent state
Fixes a bug where performing a union operation on multiple lines could end up shifting their positions
Fixes a bug where line layers could behave unexpectedly after changing the thickness of their border
Fixes a bug where pressing the Escape key on the keyboard would select the parent layer but not refresh the Canvas
Fixes a bug where using the Tab key to select the next or previous layer would not refresh the Canvas properly
Fixes a bug where copy/pasting Symbol instances could also create unwanted Symbol masters
Fixes a bug where Option-dragging to duplicate layers in the Layer List could also duplicate any Shared Style used in that layer
Fixes a bug where the Scale dialog would immediately round layers to full pixels
Fixes a bug where uploading complex documents to Sketch Cloud could result in a crash
Fixes a bug where documents uploaded to Sketch Cloud could be displayed at the wrong scale
Fixes a bug where Sketch could crash when exiting the Sketch Cloud preference pane
Fixes multiple crashes that could occur after opening documents with missing fonts
Fixes a possible crash in the bitmap editor
Fixes further common crashes
New:
Introducing our brand new application icon
You can now password-protect files shared via Sketch Cloud for extra privacy
Sketch can now both import and export images in the WebP format
Symbol instances can now override their nested Symbols to any other Symbol with the same size
Presentation Mode has been updated to fit in better with the rest of the system and full screen windows in general
Updates the welcome window to include recently-opened files and templates
Enhancements:
Updated toolbar icons to give them a fresher, more refined look
If a Page has a grid set, but contains Artboards, we will no longer render the grid for the Page to avoid confusion
Resetting Symbol instances to their original size is now also enabled for multiple selection
Hidden layers are no longer taken into account when using the Center Canvas option in the View menu
Adds a new "Paste with Style" menu item for when you want to paste Rich Text into Sketch
Improves the accuracy of boolean operations
Improves shapes converted to outlines by removing overlapping paths and superfluous points
The alignment actions in the menu, inspector and contextual menu are now consistently labelled
Improves boolean operations by removing obsolete points
Symbol Masters can now be converted back to regular Artboards by using the Detach menu item
The align buttons in the Inspector now show their correct image when aligning vector points in the shape editor
Shift-dragging to restrict a point to a single axis in the vector editor now also snaps the nearby points correctly
You can now replace multiple layers with any Symbol using the shortcut menu
When using Mask on an image layer, the masked image can now be given rounded corners easily
You can now detach Symbol instances via the menu
Sketch now automatically hides any grid when you zoom out to more than 25%
Any layer can now be converted into a Symbol easily using the shortcut menu
Symbol Artboards are no longer included in PDF export, Mirror or uploaded to Sketch Cloud
Improves CSS export by not including 'px' suffixes when the actual value is zero
When adding a new page to a document we now insert it below the selected page instead of at the bottom
Adds new menu commands for adding a New Page and navigating to the next and previous pages
The horizontal and vertical alignment options now take the middle of the layer at the bottom, rather than the average of the selected layers for more predictable results
Bug Fixes:
Fixes a bug where vector points inserted on a curve could distort the curve
Fixes a bug where Sketch could crash when replacing Symbols
Fixes a bug where closing a document would retain too much system memory
Fixes a rare bug where documents shared to Sketch Cloud could appear stretched
Fixes a bug where resizing an Angular Gradient could distort the gradient the wrong way
Fixes a bug where ungrouping a Symbol master would not detach any instances, but leave them as blank layers instead
Fixes a bug where you could not align an Artboard with object outside an Artboard
Fixes a bug where Grid and Layout settings were not properly transferred when converting Artboards to Symbols
Fixes a bug where text layers could unexpectedly expand in height when edited
Fixes a bug where changing the font in a text layer with custom line height could unexpectedly move other lines as well
Fixes a bug where you could no longer drag layers from Sketch's Layer List to other applications
Fixes a bug where aligning layers could leave artefacts on the Canvas
Fixes a bug where Alpha masks would not be rendered correctly in combination with pattern images
Fixes a bug where selecting a layer using the contextual "Pick Layer" menu wouldn't display the selection in the Canvas properly
Fixes a bug where text converted to paths would not include uppercase text transformations
Fixes a bug where Sketch could crash when inserting a text layer inside combined shape during edit
Fixes a bug where inserting an image while in shape editing mode would give unexpected results
Fixes a bug where undoing a text style change would render the context of the text layer blank
Fixes a bug where using undo whilst in the vector editor would make it impossible to close a path
Fixes a rare rendering bug where a document could refuse to render due to complex shadows
Fixes a bug where Artboards would lose their alignment guides when converted to a Symbol
Fixes some bugs where Mirror would not correctly display certain documents
Fixes a bug where vector points would be hidden after you Option-Tab to the Inspector fields
Fixes a bug where text resized text would not always stick on the same baseline
Fixes a bug where changing text attributes via the Font panel wouldn't always immediately reflect those changes in the Canvas
Fixes a bug where Symbol masters would not show the "Include background color in Symbol" checkbox in some cases
Fixes a bug where the Vector tool would not allow you to insert a new shape when you're already in the vector editor
Fixes a bug where changing position values for the Line tool in the Inspector wouldn't immediately update related values
Fixes a bug where Sketch Mirror wouldn't always mirror the selected Artboard properly
Fixes a bug where Symbol previews would not include text
Fixes a bug where layers would not properly be aligned to the bottom of a layer if its height was not a whole pixel value
Fixes a bug where using a text align shortcut would not update its status in the Inspector
Fixes a bug where small-caps and other OpenType features would get lost when changing font size
Fixes a bug where it would be difficult to edit a text layer using a Magic Mouse
Fixes a bug where, when resizing layers, the tooltip wouldn't include fractional digits
Fixes a bug where changing the text style would strip newlines from the text
Fixes a bug where Control-clicking on a locked layer would select it, instead of any unlocked layers under it
Fixes a bug where the Artboard Preset picker would unexpectedly disappear when the window resized
Fixes a bug where color adjusted images would display at non-retina resolution and would wrongly Color Adjust styles such as borders
Fixes a bug where newlines would be stripped from text when pasting into Sketch
Fixes a bug where the guides could leave artifacts in the Canvas when resizing layers
Fixes a bug where Sketch could crash when entering presentation mode
Fixes a bug where copy-and-pasting certain Artboards between Pages could fail
Fixes a bug where the names of Shared Styles in the Inspector could span multiple lines
System requirements: OS X 10.10 or later, 64-bit processor
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