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Using Nested Symbols to Create Tons of Social Assets in Seconds.

Jon Moore
6 min readApr 18, 2017

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🚀 Product launching in T-10, 9, 8…ah crap what size header do we need for Product Hunt again? Hold on. Ok, T-10, 9…shit I forgot the favicon. What’s that, there are twelve favicon sizes now? Ok, for real now…T-10, 9, 8, 7…oh crap we forgot Google+…💥

In this article I’ll show you how to generate all these assets using just a couple tweaks to a base symbol.

More symbols than Neil Peart’s drumset. Lol. Yes I know it’s “cymbals”.

Step-the-First: Make styles and symbols for your brand colors

Step-the-second: Create a flexible base symbol for your product logo

The logo consists of four pieces (from bottom to top):

Step-the-third: Using your logo to create a simple pattern for header images

’s Auto Layout. Then I simply duplicate the row and stagger it. It’s pretty elementary, but it’s one step above a solid background fill, and at least gives you something to upload for your social sites while you spend more time creating custom assets (jk, you’ll never get around to it).

Step-the-last: Export your assets into nice, neat folders for dev

Using the Pages to Folders plugin, export all these formats nicely into folders:

That took like 0.2 seconds. Now you’ll have more time to go distract your coworkers!

There’s some free stuff below, and if you like using nested symbols to be a Sketch Superhero, you can get an entire design framework for $48 here. It’s the Bootstrap of the design world 👌🏼

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Jon Moore
Jon Moore

Principal Product Designer at Salesforce

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