Sketch Athens
In the latest Sketch we’re taking an idea from Apple: Naming our releases.
At Sketch, we’re a proudly European company and we’re naming our releases after European cities from now on.
And we’re starting with Athens.
Our first update of 2025 is the largest we’ve ever shipped. It introduces an all-new layout tool — Stacks — and some big foundational changes in the form of Frames. It also brings major improvements to the Command Bar, and so much more.
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If you know auto layout in Figma, or stacks in Framer, this is our take on it.
With Stacks, you can create anything from buttons that grow or shrink to fit their labels, to entire interfaces with nested layouts that adapt to container size or content.
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We’re also introducing Frames — a new container that replaces artboards, made for UI design, that works hand-in-hand with stacks.
You can nest Frames, style them with multiple properties (no more background layers!), set resizing constraints for their contents, or give them a stack layout.
They have blog posts with more information about stacks, frames, and the command bar.
Previously:
- Apple Operating System Version Years
- Sketch Returns to the Mac App Store
- Indispensable Developer Tools
- Command Bars
- Sketch Layoffs
Update (2025-06-03): Mario Guzmán:
Sketch is one of those few companies that still understands how to make Mac apps with the soul of Macintosh.
Even Apple’s apps don’t feel like that anymore. Looking at you Shortcuts.app. It’s sad.
Previously:
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User of Sketch. This is an are you kidding me moment? DO NOT NAME VERSIONS.
It's confusing to EVERYONE. Users. Coders (I"m looking at you Apple). Consumers. Lay people who aren't even user. DO. NOT. DO. THIS.
Please? Vanity should end. Everyone *used" to equate versions with a number. (And look at the comments about that in a post here from last friday.) And If you find an ABSOLUTE NEED to name a version....
Call it Presque Isle Sketch.
We’re still giving them numbers, so not to worry. And they’re quite sensible; Athens is 2025.1. The next big one will be 2025.2. Also we’re choosing the cities alphabetically which should help ;-)
Is it intentional that the name is now a verb noun command? (You), Sketch Athens! Now, Sketch Barcelona! Sketch Copenhagen!
