Add Specs & Guides To Sketch Symbols, Part 3: Measurements

Part 1: Padding | Part 2: Text Baseline | Part 3: Measurements

In the last two tutorials, we covered how to add padding and text baseline guides to your Sketch symbols. This is tutorial that you’ve probably been waiting for!

See the first and second tutorials for the padding and text baseline guides

In part three of this series, we’re bringing the design specs to designers by nesting them in the very symbols they’re using. The measurement guide will appear when designers adds a symbol to the page. They will instantly know what the rules for the symbol are, without referring to documentation.

In this article:

• Exercise: create a horizontal measurement symbol
• Exercise: create a compound guide symbol
• Exercise: nest the compound guide in a symbol
• Exercise: create a vertical measurement symbol

⬇︎ Download the Sketch file

Exercise: create a horizontal measurement symbol

Our measurement symbol will have a start and a stop ‘tail’. To make it easier for ourselves to create compound…