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I was using my student email account to get access to Figma during my university time. After I graduated, the email also got disabled and I could not access to Figma as well. Is there a way to regain access to that account? I did ask the university about this, and while waiting for their reply I also wanted to post this question here to see if anyone had experienced the same thing. Thank you.

I am experiencing a challenge in Figma. I am trying to avoid elements showing behind blended layers. Any tips on how to achieve this?To explain further, I masked an image and added the "hard light" blend mode, then I put this above another element, and the layer behind keeps showing through the blended image, causing it to look transparent. If I switch the positions of both elements, the blended image doesn’t show through the other element.The circled place shows my challenge I attached an image as well to explain further my plight

I have a layer repeated 32 times throughout many pages and I need to rename it. When I search for the name I find it 32 times, but when I switch to Replace, it says there are no results. Am I missing some step?

Can we export the images with 300 DPI in FIGMA, I tried but did not found any solution.

I’m getting a new error from the Relay plugin: “java.net.URISyntaxException: Illegal character in query at index 129: https://api.figma.com/v1/files//versions?page_size=30&column=date&secondary_column=default&after=2024-08-27 15:39:42 UTC&secondary_after=6508160513” Anyone have any ideas what I could do to fix this? My experience with the Relay plugin in general has not been great.

ChatGPT claims it can read Figma JSON, but so far I have not successfully been able to export my entire Figma file into a JSON file that ChatGPT can read. Can anyone suggest a method of importing a large Figma file into ChatGPT so it can help me analyze the designs and help write a PRD? Thanks!

Hi, I just noticed that my team subscription has tripled without my awareness, likely due to past invite links I shared with others. I wasn’t aware I needed to manually remove those people from my team.I’ve now gone ahead and removed everyone, but it still shows 5 available full access seats. I only need one full access seat and want to make sure I won’t be charged extra for the additional ones I no longer need.Could someone please clarify whether there’s a way to remove these available seats, or confirm if I’ll be charged for them? Thanks so much for your help!________________rn, I see “6” on the People page of Figma, but after i click into “Manage ”, there is only one user (my own account) . 

We need to pay the annual subscription and are considering using a credit card. Do you know if any fees apply with this method, or is it more convenient to use another method, like a bank transfer? Thanks

This doesn’t need discussion as it’s only meant as my personal opinion which has no basis other than my personal likings. Resetting a component, is something i use a lot and now that it is burried i have to spend more time. I would want here to either have some shortcuts attached to it somewhere more prominently. I would love to have the ability to reorder the panels (Position, Auto Layout, Appearance, Fill, Effect) similar to how i can do this in adobe programs. The middle-bottom toolbar is positioned prominently and i never use it. I would prefer if I could hide it or position it somewhere else. (top left, or top right, etc) I don’t understand the value of having padding/margin around the sidebar. It feels so annoying. I would prefer if i could allow the sidebar to be used more effectively, especially given the fact that i work on a laptop and my screen size is low. Overall, i do not like the UI3. I know i can switch back to the old UI for the moment.

Hey! I was watching Figma like the pros: Figma like the pros - Christine V, Eugene F, Femke van S, Helena Z, Joey B, Molly H, Rusmir A - YouTube Molly was showing how to hide the collection (with “. or _”) from the color menu, but that feature doesn’t work for me. If I want to use Primitives and Alias tokens I have to scroll trough long lists of variables. And Color scoping doesn’t seem to work for me too. Am I the only one? Cheers from Latvia 🙂

I have an Accordion component and would like it to have a border of 1px solid lightblue on all sides, and a thicker border-left of 4px solid darkblue. How can I achieve this in Figma? How can I set different thicknesses and different colours on the borders of an object?

 Hi! I’m wondering if anyone here has a solution/answer regarding my issue. I’m working on a school project and need to create a blog with different entries, this is the base template for how an entry should look on the main page (Article thumbnail, title, authors, date and brief description) I have around 5 categories to do and each and every one of the articles is going to have the same elements… I’m wondering if there’s a way to create just one element and then input the data and create copies for each article on the main page (or if the only way to do it is copying and pasting it….) Sorry for my bad grammar, english is not my first language. I thank you deeply for your help beforehand. 

Hi! I mistakenly irrevocably deleted a needed project instead of an unnecessary one because Figma glitched. Is it possible to restore it? I sent an e-mail, but support takes a long time to respond.

I manage a large-scale multi-brand design system The setup is pretty large - albeit standard IMHO 1000+ text styles - where all text style properties are variable-based. Duplicating styles individually/manually is straightforward, however, at this scale, it is prohibitive. There are a few methods (cut/paste to another file) and plugins to help workflow in duplicating text styles without variables, but they don’t support/maintain variables. Any thoughts on how to do this with Variable-based text styles? Use case: We already have 3 font variables per brand: “Body”, “Brand”, “Marketing”. We want to add a “Serif” font (in variables) for each brand, by cloning (for example) the “Brand” version/tree of the text styles across all sizes/styles and applying “Serif” font variables. Any thoughts/help appreciated. Thanks. Pierre For anyone wondering about the sanity/validity of 1000+ text styles, I’d love to hear how to address the following requirements without such an approach. Architecture o

The issue was already raised on July 20th here: https://forum.figma.com/t/missing-css-properties-for-variable-fonts-in-dev-mode/48849 The original topic has been closed, but the issue still persists. This is very important for our developer handoffs. This is the information we currently see about Typography in the dev-mode. We’re missing the information about font-stretch values. Could you give us an update when this issue will be fixed? Thank you in advance.

Hello I made a button with an animation on the icon that looks like this:  I created variables to allow me to change the icon from the instance.  My original button works as I want.But the copy with the icon change doesn't “play” the back animation.Is there a way to make this work so I can change the icon quickly without having to duplicate all the animations? First, I created my two iconsThen I created a static state that will be in my default button. And 2 states for the animation with a delay. And finally the default button and its hover version, with a rollhover and a “reset component style” state to return to the default state before the animation.Figma file is here, Figma file  Thanks for the help. 

Why? Background: I work in the financial sector. We consist of a holding company and other smaller, specialised sub-companies. We are very tech-heavy and UX maturity is still in the early stages, and I am in the process of merging the companies onto one Figma. The workspaces would be ideal for this. But also for legal requirements. As we are very dev driven, we really wanted to work with the Rest API because it benefits our design system. But the sales team told me that we need at least 6 designer licences before we can get Enterprise. At the moment I am only one designer in my company. The other companies have one each. The group-wide expansion is currently being organised. I have been offered to “simply” add more licences and then I’m good to go. Can someone explain to me how I can sell the management that you have to spend an extra €4500 to make it work? I can understand not wanting to give a certain level of support to smaller teams because otherwise the overall quality of the serv

Hi, I am working on a designsystem/ UI-kit in figma. I am currently working on the button components using variants. I want to create differents sizes. eg. small medium and large and set these as variants.I want the width to be responsive to the size of the device. For example the big button will take up the complete width of the screen minus 7px margins on each size.I know I can do this with auto-layout -> fill container and applying margin to the whole screen-frame. However I can not add this setting to the main-component button since it is not inside a frame/does not have a parent yet. Is there any way to achieve responsive components that size with the screenwidth by having "fill container"? Thank you so much in advance!  

Hi lovely Community, i am a bit lost atm….  i trying to do a style with only the corner borders are visible..  In this picture i tried it with own vectors… but i want to work it with auto Layout so it adjust to the text inside…. and the border should have some space between button (green) and the border….i need to auto layout also to work with design so i can work with variants… with normal designs and small adjustments i am capable to do… but with this kind of border i am so lost HOW to do it. Maybe someone have an idea and a good explanation <3 

Is there a way to revert to a previous value of a variable other than using another variable to store it? ie. is there a variable history so that in a non-linear process, you can revert back to the previous value (component state)?

I have multiple HTMLS. I want to embed them into the plugin through iframe, but some of the contents cannot be displayed completely.For example: In the canvas area chart, the Dark Mode button cannot be switched;However, html can be displayed and used normally on the browser. May I ask if there are any restrictions on figma? I hope you can help answer this const updateIframeContent = () => {nextTick(() => {if (previewFrame.value && props.htmlContent) {try {const iframeDoc = previewFrame.value.contentDocument || previewFrame.value.contentWindow.document;iframeDoc.open();iframeDoc.write(props.htmlContent);iframeDoc.close();playLightAnimationOnce();} catch (e) {console.error('error', e);}}});};<iframe ref="previewFrame" class="html-iframe" :class="device" @load="onIframeLoad"></iframe>

Whenever I move my frame, the lines i created won’t follow. They dissociate themselves(although being in a group element) from the rest of my design. How to freeze them within the frame?

I am try to recreate these chat bubbles that hug the message within them. As you can see in the video when you resize the browser the chat bubbles also resize but they still hug the text. How can I do this in Figma? When I set the auto layout to hug the text and then resize the screen the text eventually gets pushed off screen. The only way Im able to get it to resize with the screen is if I set it to fill container, but then there is a ton of space left over if the message isn’t that long. Please Help!Gif 1: Example I am trying to replicateGif 2: Fill ContainerGif 3: Hug

My organisation has an annual subscription that is renewing later this year. What is the process to change the annual subscription e.g. upgrade from professional to org, add/remove seats? What is the window in order to do so and who should we contact? 

HI All, I want to be able to select two colours and at the same time - so for example purple and pink and have it link to an image with both colours blended? what do I search for to be able to do this - We have the blended image - I am unsure and unable to work out how to do this and I suspect I dont know the correct terminologyThanks in advance