What Figma is
The design tool most product teams build in: vector editing, components, prototyping and real-time collaboration, in the browser.
- The standard for interface design, with a huge plugin library
- Components, variables and auto layout that scale to a whole product
- Multiplayer editing and commenting
- Prototyping and developer hand-off built in
Where it stops
Figma is where the interface gets built. It has no opinion about what it should look like. Open a blank file and every decision is still ahead of you: which visual language, which palette, which typefaces, and why. Figma will build anything; it will not tell you what to build.
What Omoro is
Omoro is a visual research system: 224 named design styles, each taken apart into its palette, typefaces, materials, history and where it shows up in real work. The library is open to everyone without an account; the Studio, where your own references become one directable style, opens to the waitlist.
Side by side
| Figma | Omoro | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Building and shipping interfaces | Deciding the visual direction before you build |
| Styles | Whatever you draw | 224 documented styles to choose from |
| Palettes | Colour styles and variables you define | 660 palettes, contrast-checked, with hex codes |
| Typography | Any font you install | Font pairings per style, with free equivalents |
| Direction | None; it is a canvas | A UI Lab that turns a style into layout, palette roles and type, with a prompt to build from |
| Hand-off | Dev mode and design tokens | Tokens exported as CSS, Tailwind or Figma variables |
| Free tier | Free for individuals, paid for teams | The whole library, no account |
Which to use
Keep Figma. Keep Figma. It is where the work gets made, and nothing here draws a rectangle.
Add Omoro. Add Omoro for the hour before Figma: pick the style, resolve the palette and type in the UI Lab, then take the tokens into your file and build.
Pricing
Figma is free for individuals with paid seats for teams and professionals. Omoro's library and the UI Lab are free without an account.
What is coming
Next in the Studio, opening to the waitlist first: image and video generation from a style, collage building, inpainting, reference saving and taste detection.
224 styles and 660 palettes, free, no account. See what a documented style looks like before you decide anything.