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The economics of a free kit don't work long-term. A paid model creates a cycle: sales fund improvements, improvements drive more value. Here's the thinking behind the switch.

The Community Edition stays free but won't receive major updates. We're preparing a commercial re-release launching March 11th — here's a heads-up on what's changing.

A Figma plugin that generates clean component documentation in seconds. Toggle docs on or off, customize colors, and keep full control over your design system workflow.

A kit user asked why certain colors aren't available when assigning variables. We explain how Figma's color scoping works and when it helps or gets in the way.

Some community members have asked us what our stance is on “create”. In this blog post, we discuss our opinion and how it affects our kit. In December,…

Today, we released the 1.5.0 version of the kit. Watch the above video for the full explanation about what changed. This version continues improving our…

With the 1.4.0 release, we announced a design to development plugin that took the shadcn/ui kit variables and generated CSS code. We are currently…

In December ‘25, shadcn released shadcn/ui create. This feature, available at ui.shadcn.com/create allows you to build your own shadcn/ui. As part of the…

This is a cross-posted blog post, that originally appeared on the Obra Studio blog. Lately we find that clients have similar needs: A recent rebrand needs…

With Obra Studio we’ve helped clients across the world customize our very own shadcn/ui kit. Client projects keep our kit free and open source. They also…