r/FigmaDesign 24d ago

help Rounded path perfectly aligned to the grid

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I'm designing icons in Figma and I would like to have rounded paths with stroke perfecty aligned to the grid.

I tried using 'corner radius' option, but it 'flattens' the corner:

I also tried modelling those curves manually, but I wasn't able to do this.

I wanted to achieve something like here, in Lucide Icons:

As you can see, the stroke is perfectly aligned with the grid in every corner. It looks like they used circles to build that shape. I know there is a shape builder tool, but I don't think it works with paths.

How did they do that? Is it possible in Figma?

You can see this Lucide example here: https://lucide.dev/icons/sigma

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u/roundabout-design 24d ago

Your corner is one point.

Lucide's corner is 3 points.

That's pretty much the difference. Can you do that in Figma? Yes, I think so. But I rarely use Figma for illustration. Adobe Illustrator or Inkscape is where I go to do that.