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Harsha_Vardhan
February 17, 2021
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Applying text styles is slow

  • February 17, 2021
  • 31 replies
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I always get annoyed for the time Figma takes to apply the selected text styles. It’s taking approximately a second time.

These are the little things that build up or collapse a great product experience.

Do you guys also experiencing the same ?

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31 replies

SteffMueller
New Participant
September 14, 2021

Thats Bollox.

I’m on Organization Plan and it happens to me too.

Chanaka_CG
December 21, 2021

I have the same issue. Specially with the type and color styles

Joshua_Schaer
January 26, 2022

I encountered this issue now as well. I am using the Microsoft FluentUI library.

If I am not mistaken, it started when I exchanged all text styles with a new font. Since then, I wait 20-30s for a page to show all content and I wait 1-3s to be able to edit text layers, even moving around on the canvas and selecting stuff is laggy. It’s impossible to work like that.

  • As a first workaround I duplicated the project to check if that resolves the issue. It was fast at start, but after 5 minutes it was slow again.
  • I opened a ticket. I’ll report how long it takes figma to react to this.
  • Next I will try to switch back the old fonts

I will report later.

Joshua_Schaer
January 27, 2022

First update:

  • no response yet from figma
  • I disabled the library function and after that action everything was smooth for a few minutes. Then laggyness kicked in again, but it is not as bad as before, meaning I can kind of work.
Joshua_Schaer
February 1, 2022

Second update:

  • got an answer from figma, they got access and confirmed the issue. It will take them some time to resolve it.

Third update (there are no more than 2 replies allowed here :D):

  • problem seems more or less fixed. The project is still not as smooth as other figma projects, but I can work. Sadly, I have no idea, what the problem was.
JohnnyWoo
March 24, 2022

Just read this post and yes, happening to me and my team too. When the figma file enable the design system library, it lag when we try to change the color from design system library.

AG532
August 3, 2022

I’m also experiencing this issue and It’s extremely frustrating. Did anyone find a fix for this?

June 26, 2023

Hi I am experiencing this issue with color styles - there is a very slight lag when applying the style. appreciate any help.

June 30, 2023

Happening here as well. Its a small, but frustrating performance hickup, really breaks up your workflow. Have to wait for the style to apply before clicking out of a frame/component otherwise the style isn’t applied.

July 4, 2023

Same for me. Since the update, applying color styles is annoyingly slow.