Get a first look at Dark Mode in Sketch 😎 plus a chance to hang out with the team! 

Check out the latest news, plugins, resources and events from the Sketch Community. [View this email in your browser]( [Sketch News]( Newsletter — Issue 50 [Official Sketch meetups in Rome, San Francisco and Edinburgh — see you there!](#) After a successful meetup in the Hague a few weeks ago, we’re really excited to announce that the Sketch team will be hosting a couple more official events in Rome, San Francisco and Edinburgh in the coming months. First up is our Rome event on the 18th October. We’re working with our friends from [Noi]( to host a meetup at Talent Garden in the center of the city. [Find out more and register on the meetup page.]( In Edinburgh and San Francisco we’re teaming up with [Proto.io]( the talented team behind [Overflow]( put on two awesome meetups[.]( On the 22nd October some of the team will be in San Francisco with talks from about Sketch, Overflow and UX. [Sign up on the Meetup page]( to hear more details as they‘re announced. The Edinburgh meetup is taking place on the 12th November and coincides with [Dibi Conference]( a local UI/UX event. The Sketch team will be there and we’ll have talks from Sketch founder Pieter Omvlee and Alexis Piperides from Overflow. You can [find out more and register for the meetup here.]( We’re really excited to meet and share ideas with the creative community around the world and we hope to see you at one of these events! [More events]( Featured plugins [Skew!]( This neat little plugin lets you skew or shear your shape layers horizontally or vertically in Sketch. [6Spiral]( 6Spiral allows you to easily draw spiral and helix shapes at a specified angle, in Sketch, to create awesome illustrations. Learn [To increase my productivity, I ended up converting a spare MIDI pad device into a shortcut machine that’s sped up my workflow and given me access to my less frequently used shortcuts more easily.]( [How to turn a spare MIDI device into a Sketch shortcut machine]( by Chris Grain [You’ve seen it in Sketch, that grey lined box around a text layer on your canvas. It has handles on the outside to resize it. But why is it the size that it is? Why doesn’t it snap to the actual pixels that make up the letters? What is all this white space around the characters?]( [Get Down to the Nitty-Gritty of Text Rendering in Sketch]( by Yakim [Sketch is changing the way overrides work. Well, not changing…but adding a new way to apply overrides to symbols. Instead of just overriding nested symbols (like an icon inside of a button), now you’ll be able to override the TEXT STYLE and COLOR. There is a god.]( [The Sketch Update We’ve All Been Waiting For, plus a BRAND NEW UX Power Tools!]( by Jon Moore --------------------------------------------------------------- Videos [Dark Mode | It's here and it's 🔥]( by Jesse Showalter Jesse Showalter takes a first look at the much anticipated Dark Mode in Sketch, coming in macOS Mojave. [Sketch Web Design Course]( by Skillthrive This two-part video tutorial from Skillthrive will teach you how to create an E-commerce Checkout Page in Sketch. --------------------------------------------------------------- Resources [Plaster - Mobile Design System]( Plaster is a great looking mobile UI design system based on material.io guidelines and principles. [Download]( [Dashboard UI Kit 3.0]( This kit comes with 40 screens for web apps and dashboards, developed in React. [Download]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Events and community [Discover the latest events and communities near you]( [THESIGNOF Meetup #4]( Milan, Italy — 20 Sep [Join]( [Sketch and Prototyping 101]( Baltimore, USA — 25 Sep [Join]( [Sketch MTL Community Reviews #3]( Montreal, Canada — 25 Sep [Join]( [Sketch Glasgow - Community Meetup]( Glasgow, United Kingdom — 27 Sep [Join]( [Sketch Meetup #9: Design Version Control!]( Florence, Italy — 27 Sep [Join]( [Sketch & Design – Stuttgart Meetup]( Stuttgart, Germany — 02 Oct [Join]( [Sketch & Design #6: Design Systems]( Barcelona, Spain — 03 Oct [Join]( [Sketch + Fajitas!]( South Florida, USA — 04 Oct [Join]( [Sketch & Design Rome (Official)]( Rome, Italy — 18 Oct [Join]( [Overflow & Sketch Meetup (Official)]( San Francisco, USA — 22 Oct [Join]( [Colombo Sketch Meetup]( Colombo, Sri Lanka — 25 Oct [Join]( [Sketch Meetup Edinburgh (Official)]( Edinburgh, United Kingdom — 12 Nov [Join]( You received this email because you subscribed via the Sketch website. We’ll be sorry to see you go but you can [unsubscribe instantly.]( Bohemian B.V., Marconistraat 20, 2562 JD, the Hague, the Netherlands [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Medium]( [Dribbble]( [Forward this email to a friend]( [Privacy Statement](