PixelSqueeze feature guide

Every control in the Export tab, what it does, and the rules the plugin follows when it writes files.

Formats

Name
JPEG (quality)
Type
photos
Description
Lossy, no transparency; transparent areas become white. Quality 1 to 100. Around 75 to 85 is visually identical to the source for photographs at a fraction of the size.
Name
WebP (quality)
Type
web
Description
Lossy with transparency kept. Same quality scale as JPEG, usually 25 to 35 percent smaller at the same look. Supported by every current browser.
Name
PNG-8 (quantized)
Type
flat UI, icons, screenshots
Description
Reduces the image to at most 256 colors with a median-cut palette and optional Floyd-Steinberg dithering. Flat design work shrinks dramatically with no visible change; photographs band, use JPEG or WebP for those. If the result would be larger than the original PNG, the original bytes are kept and the row shows 0 percent.
Name
PNG (original)
Type
lossless
Description
Figma's own PNG, untouched. Use it when you need lossless output with alpha.

Scales run from 0.25x to 4x. Custom factor accepts any number, and Target width exports every layer at exactly that pixel width, which is what you want for hero images and banners that must match a CSS size.

A layer that would exceed 16,384 pixels on a side cannot be rendered by Figma. The plugin checks this before exporting anything and names the layer and its would-be size so you can reduce the scale.

Batches and the ZIP

One file downloads under its layer name; several files are zipped as pixelsqueeze-export.zip.
Layer names are made safe for file systems. Two layers with the same name get numeric suffixes so nothing is overwritten inside the ZIP.
The savings report lists every file's original and new size. The status line gives the total and the overall percentage saved.
Free exports handle up to 10 layers per batch; Pro removes the limit.

Settings memory

Format, scale, quality, colors, dithering and naming choices are saved on your machine via Figma's plugin storage and restored the next time you open the plugin. Nothing is sent anywhere.

Naming rules (Pro)

Name
Scale suffix
Type
@2x
Description
Appends @2x, @0.5x and so on to each file name, or _1200w for target-width exports. Off by default.
Name
Separator
Type
underscore or hyphen
Description
The character that replaces spaces and unsafe characters in layer names.
Name
Lowercase
Type
toggle
Description
Lowercases file names, which many CDNs and static hosts expect.
Name
JPEG extension
Type
.jpg or .jpeg
Description
Some build pipelines accept only one of the two.

Folders from layer names (Pro)

A layer named icons/home becomes icons/home.png inside the ZIP, so a well-named Figma page unpacks straight into your project's asset folders. Without Pro the slash is replaced by the separator.

Target file size (Pro)

Enter a maximum in KB and the plugin searches for the highest JPEG or WebP quality that fits, trying at most eight encodes per file. The row shows the quality it settled on, or "over N KB" when even quality 1 does not fit, in which case reduce the scale.

Presets (Pro)

Save any combination of settings under a name, for example "Blog hero 1600w WebP" or "App Store 3x PNG", and load it from the dropdown. Up to 50 presets are stored on your machine.