Why Isn't the Glass Effect or Background Blur Working in Figma?

1. The fill is 100% opaque. A solid fill hides everything behind it, so there's nothing to blur. Lower the fill's own opacity in the Fill section.
2. Nothing is behind the layer. Both effects blur what sits underneath. Over a flat white frame the result looks like nothing happened. Put an image, gradient or colourful shapes behind it.
3. Glass and Background blur are both on. Figma doesn't allow them on the same object. Keep one.
4. You exported to SVG. Glass isn't supported in SVG export. Export PNG instead.
5. Glass is stacked on glass. A glass layer over another glass layer doesn't factor in the one behind it. Stagger them or use Background blur on one.

1. Place a colourful image or gradient on the frame.
2. Draw a rectangle on top and give it a white fill at around 20% opacity.
3. In the right sidebar, click + in the Effects section and add Glass, or Background blur if you want a plain frosted blur.
4. Add a 1px white stroke at low opacity for the edge highlight, and a soft drop shadow if the card needs lift.

Layer blur and background blur both come as Uniform or Progressive. Progressive lets you set start and end size, direction and intensity, which is how you get a blur that fades out towards one edge.

You don't need a plugin for grain. The same Effects + menu has Noise and Texture.

• Noise comes in Mono, Duo or Multi colour, with size and density controls. A layer can have up to 2 noise effects.
• Texture has size, radius and a Clip to shape option. One per layer.

A little Mono noise on a glass card makes it read as frosted plastic rather than a flat tint. For a repeating graphic texture instead of grain, build a tile; see how to make a repeating pattern tile in Figma.

Each layer can carry 8 drop shadows, 8 inner shadows, 1 layer blur, 1 background blur, 1 glass, 2 noise and 1 texture effect. To stack more than that, put the extra effects on a wrapper frame or a duplicate layer.