My Sketch Shortcuts
There’s no denying that Sketch is a great tool — but it can be made even greater once you master some keyboard shortcuts.
I don’t want to make Sketch overly complicated, and I don’t like having to learn a bunch of shortcuts. This post is a continuation of the great sketchshortcuts.com — which I referred to often in the first few weeks. These are custom ones I’ve added over the past 6 months of using Sketch.
My Custom Shortcuts
⌘ ; Show/Hide Rulers
⌘ ’ Show/Hide Artboard Grid
⌘ \ Show/Hide Slices
⌘ / Collapse Artboards & Groups (my most used by far)
⌥ ⌘ / Toggle Click Through
Ctrl X Show/Hide Pixels
⌘P Round to Nearest Pixel Edge — works even if proportions are locked
⌘[ Align Vertical Center
⌘] Align Horizontal Center
At the bottom of this article there’s a plist you can download in order to quickly load all these.
To create custom shortcuts:
You know how you like to work better than I do — so here’s how you create your own.
Open System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts
Click [+] beneath the split view & you’ll see this:
In the Menu Title field, write the exact name of the menu item you want this Keyboard shortcut to trigger. I’ll re-create my (⌘P) Round to Nearest Pixel Edge shortcut, so I type “Round to Nearest Pixel Edge”.
Then in the Keyboard Shortcut field, I hold down ⌘P (the actual keys) to populate the field.
Click Add and it’s done! You can do this for any app.
You can create duplicates: for example, I use ⌘ \ to show/hide slices, even though only one menu option is available at a time. In the shortcut editor, I just add “Show Slices” and “Hide Slices” as separate shortcuts with the same keybinding.
As for things nested within another menu level — type the name including the nested names, separated by [ -> ] For example “Arrange->Align Objects->Horizontally” (in 10.8+, for <10.7 use > only).
Thanks to Colby, who caught an error here.
Hope this makes you more productive!
If you’re a property list modifying whiz, you can use my com.bohemiancoding.sketch3.plist as a template to quickly import these shotcuts. You can find them in ~/Library/Preferences. Make sure you back up the original before screwing around with this!
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