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Hello, relatively new to Figma. Need some help with spacing. Not sure why my spacing is different between the first line (two grid squares for ref) and the second (one grid square for ref). I’m just looking for my text box to follow my line height when resizing the boundaries of it. Any help would be great, I’m sure it’s something simple I’m missing. Thank you

I have 4 full seats that we’ve been paying for.  3 need only dev mode access.  When trying to downgrade the users, it says I will be billed additionally for the 3 users I need to downgrade.  I don’t want additional 3 additional dev seats, I want 1 full and 3 dev.  How do I do this?  I keep getting prompted that each change will be an addition, not a change???

I am having issues with master component updates relaying to instances throughout my file. I have a master button component and when trying to update the height of the master, nothing is changing with my instances. I have tried to Repair Component Connections and Regenerate All Instances with no luck. I’m still pretty amateur in my Figma experience, so I could be missing something obvious. Any suggestions that save me creating a new master or just updating each individual button are appreciated. 

I have a problem with the project from work — when I open the prototype on my phone or tablet, only a single page appears and I can’t swipe through anymore. I’ve tried restarting, but it didn’t help

I’m in the Figma for Edu the latest updates from Figma i showed once on my desktop application and suddenly disappeared it’s normal

Hello, I have a large group of different shaped icons that I’d like to size using variables for Desktop, Tablet and Mobile.Is there a way to apply a 100% height value or set a fixed aspect ratio so I can control them via a single width variable? It would save me a lot of time.Thanks,Will

I created a hover button, my goal was when I click on the button, it should divide in three parts like retro style, I kinda achieved it, but the problem I faced was, when I previewed it, the button was kind of bouncing or dancing, I rechecked everything and everything was fine, can anyone tell me the solution.

As an Owner of my Figma account, how can I enable exporting in my Figma files?. Now Export is disabled. Where is this option?

Is there a way to automatically scale an image to fit a frame proportionally? A quick key?

 Hi! I just started using Figma and today I lost my cat jumping after the cursor. He was here just five days ago and now he's gone. Maybe I accidentally pressed some hotkeys and that's why he disappeared... Please help me find him😭😭😭  

https://www.raycast.com/core-features/aiI am trying to recreate a specific UI effect I saw in a design (see attached image). I'm particularly interested in achieving the following: Subtle Edge Fade: The icons near the left and right edges of the dock/bar fade out smoothly. How can this be achieved using gradient masks or other techniques in Figma? Icon Style: The icons have a distinct appearance: a combination of neumorphism, transparency, subtle shading, and a glow effect. What are the best approaches to replicate this style in Figma? I'm looking for step-by-step guidance, best practices, and any helpful plugins or resources that could assist in recre

Hello thereSo I am trying to build a test app just to hone my skillsAnd one of the parts I want to implement is something where when I click one of the tick boxes Cafes with that drink will pop upand when I click MULTIPLE boxes, Cafes with ever one of those drinks will pop upFor exampleCappuccino Tickbox Espresso Tickbox Matcha Tickbox When the Cappuccino box is ticked- cafes that serve Cappuccino’s will pop up When the espresso tickbox is ticked, cafes that serve Espresso will pop up Same with Matcha   NOW when I click MULTIPLE tickboxes (Matcha and Espresso) only cafes that serve BOTH Matcha and Espresso will pop up How will this be done please because I assume you use variables I just have no idea how I would apply them and how i would use multiple variants of the cafesP.S If someone could make a demo of this it would be extremely h

My figma file would automatically delete some content from my design draft, resulting in a large area of content being lost. Even after I retrieved it from the historical files, the content would still continue to be lost. I felt very panicked

In order to create a chatbot based on a flow chart I created with Figma, I have to give each item a unique code.Is there any automatic way of doing it?Doung it manually is a hassle… Thanks

Hello, i’m going back to figma after a while without practicing so i’m doing some project for fun. I only learned it during 1 year of school so i don’t have all the tips. I’m actually trying to do a little database of a video game i like and it’s been some days i’m stuck with this problem (see the image below). I have cards with the full art of my characters and i created components to have a portrait of them on hovering. But when i hover, the card is coming on the front over the filters. And i really don’t know what i’ve done wrong here.The cards components are set in “open overlay”, in “manual” position. And they are not inside anything, they are free (second image).If someone have any clues or ideas of what my problem is, i’ll be glad to listen ! And i can give other informations if you need 

I previously asked if anyone at Figma is in fact using components with more than 10 variants and care about sorting them? I asked why they did away with the pill-shaped list that was better? Looks like they keep pushing this absolute garbage vertical list that most of the time cannot be reordered and the same time waste a lot of space on the right hand side of the variant names.I reported this several times, sorting of variants is either not working or is at best clunky when it does.Today, yet again, I am not able to sort / reorder my variants. This keeps coming back again and again, it’s ridiculous already.Now I genuinely ask myself if this is actually a Figma feature or I am very, very stupid? Since I hover over a variant, click to grab it, drag it around, and not only it will not scroll down in that garbage list but will also release that variant IN A RANDOM PLACE. Like what --?So I would like to know if this works for You and IF it does

A (another…) small rant about UI3. The new UI3 bring a lot of good features and abilities. but some design decisions i just cannot understand. One of them for this example is the massive reduction in the clickable area of menu components. As you can see this screenshot, the previous clickable area for menu items stood on 32px heigh and (at minimum) 240px width. This translated to 7680px of clickable area. In contrast to that, the new UI3 is able to give us only 24px height with only 224px width (on the 240px minimal setting) which are only 5376px of clickable area. This is a reduction of 30% in clickable area! multiply that by as many items you have in the menu. for this example i took the pages menu panel. Not to mention the gap between each item of 5px. this makes the clicking menu items very hard. What was the reason for this design? now we get a more cluttered design (more elements fit in the page)

Hi all, I am working on a design for our sister company which is a white label of our main site. So I have duplicated thats site over to a new file and now need to replace to match the styling of the sister site. When I change the font it normally updates immediately. But its currently not changing and the small preview icon “Ag” for the font changes to a “T” Do anyone know if there is an issue currently?  ThanksSimon

Hi everyone, I just used Figma.I have a question about text, it doesn't show up on my screen while I’m typing. I've confirmed that the opacity was 100% but it still doesn't show up. I've also reopened the page but still doesn't work.Can someone tell me why?? 

Lots of posts about copying variables between files…but how do we copy variables between modes? I have a thorough set of variables with light and dark modes. Figma recently made it possible to apply variables to shadows. So now I added the variable set for shadows. However, it seems that I have to manually set the variable for each of the items in BOTH the light and dark modes. 🤬 Am I missing something? Does someone have a better process that I am skipping? How can I duplicate from one mode to the other without ending up with a whole third mode? This feels like missing functionality to me.

I want to integrate tiers into a my design systems model to provide a framework for managing the evolution and maintenance of design system components. Currently everything is under 1 master but I want to use the following information architecture for the tiering process:The top level is "Design System Library."The second level has two branches: "Core" and "Product."The "Core" branch has three sub-branches: "Stable," "Beta," and "Vision."The "Product" branch has a sub-branch: "Experimental."How can I create the second level branches using the top level? See attached IA. Please help. Thank you!  

When I need to create a mask with the command CTRL + ALT + M in Figma UI3, the shortcut doesn’t work, I’ve already checked the keyboard, the shortcut itself, but it doesn’t work, I can just go manually through the properties panel on the right. Furthermore, when I do it manually, there is a kind of green demarcation where the mask was made. Does anyone know why, or if this is due to a beta bug?

I just restarted my Figma application and something weird is happening in a project that I’ve been working on for months.So in the first photo, it shows a screenshot of the button in the hover mode, but when I hover over the button in preview, it comes out as a square (second screenshot). It wasn’t like this ever and was perfect just an hour ago, but all of a sudden when I closed and reopened my application, it started glitching.The third screenshot is the screenshot when I changed the state to hover (which shows up how it should), but the hover animation next to it in preview mode shows up as a square.The fourth screenshot is the master component which shows the 3 states so I have no idea how it’s possibly showing up as a square in preview mode.

I just restarted my Figma application and something weird is happening in a project that I’ve been working on for months.So in the first photo, it shows a screenshot of the button in the hover mode, but when I hover over the button in preview, it comes out as a square (second screenshot). It wasn’t like this ever and was perfect just an hour ago, but all of a sudden when I close and reopen my application, it started glitching.I’ve tried refreshing the application again numerous times, but nothing is working. 

Despite an extensive search coming up short, I am trying to determine if interactive components (like check boxes, dropdown menus, etc.) are available for use in Figjam. I have successfully created a dropdown menu in Figma Design but copying/pasting into a Figjam board doesn’t seem to permit the interaction with the component.