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Martin_Marinov
New Participant
Apr 17, 2024 8:45 AM UTC
Question

Text styles disappearing

I have text styles defined inside a library file. All my components are using these styles.

When creating the designs using the components and styles in another file I always make sure to use the text styles and if I paste text I use Shift + Cmd + V to esnure I’m pasting text without any formatting (verry annouing tho).

Recently I was just going thorugh already done designs to check something and noticed that all the text layers in some of my pages are with the correct color variable, correct size and etc but they have no text style attached to them.

Now I have to go layer by layer, copy the text, click Reset all changes (if it is a component) and paste the text. This is rediculous.

So few questions:

  1. Is there any way to make the default pasting of text be without any format?
  2. Is there any bug that caused this dettachment?
  3. Is there any way I can only reset the style of the text layer inside component instance and not the text color and etc?
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19 replies

Celine_
Figmate
Community Support
Nov 15, 2024 12:04 PM UTC

Hey @Marija , sorry to hear you are also having issues with your text styles.
You can reach out to the support team by filling out this form: here

Be sure to use your Figma account email, include a link to the file, and share it with support-share@figma.com as an Editor, so we can take a closer look. Thank you!

JavierG
Dec 3, 2024 7:02 PM UTC

Same here, my text style disappeared from my projects and I cant use them as I cant find them in the styles dropdown

djv
Figmate
Community Support
Dec 4, 2024 12:19 AM UTC

Hey @JavierG, sorry for the trouble!

We had a service disruption this morning that may have caused this. Can you please refresh and let us know if you still have issues?

Simon Kerr
New Member
Feb 20, 2025 6:37 AM UTC

i am having this issue. 

i’ve created text styles, applied them to elements, returned the next day and randomly half the text styles have disappeared. the text styles have tokenised values for font size, line height and font family. I’ve tried recreating the styles a number of times now, which is getting very frustrating. I wondered if its because the styles had the same names but in different text style folders, but even changing the names completely, the issue still occurs. And there were multiple elements using these disappearing styles

Constantin1
New Member
Apr 13, 2025 1:42 PM UTC

I’m having the exact same issue as Simon. I had 91 text styles linked to variables for different weights, line heights, sizes. Now they’re all gone. It took me two full days to create and link everything, and now they’re just gone. ☹️

Bevis
New Member
May 16, 2025 7:26 AM UTC

Now is 2025-05-16, still same issue.

Sacha
New Member
Jul 11, 2025 11:09 PM UTC

Yep, still encountering this issue. What’s worse is that when I go to rewrite text in a component variable (that has a linked font style) it completely resets the font family to something completely different. 

Woj
New Member
Aug 14, 2025 4:24 PM UTC

This issue still persist – I’ve already lost hours of my work due to this bug. 

Celine_
Figmate
Community Support
Aug 28, 2025 1:26 PM UTC

Hi everyone,

Thank you all for sharing your reports. We know how frustrating disappearing text styles can be, and we're sorry for the trouble.

There was a service disruption last year as mentioned ​@djv that may have contributed to some of these issues, but that has since been resolved. If you haven’t already, a refresh or reopening of the file might help if the issue was related to that incident.

That said, since these reports span a longer period and could have different root causes, we recommend reaching out directly to our support and technical quality teams so they can investigate your specific case. You can do that by submitting a bug report here.
Please be sure to:

  • Use your Figma account email

  • Include a link to the affected file

  • Share the file with support-share@figma.com as an Editor

This will give our team the best chance to get to the bottom of it.

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For visibility here: in @Claudia_Brambilla’s case, our engineers have already investigated the issue. Thank you for filling out the form! Based on their findings, overriding text content shouldn’t affect font styles. However, it’s possible that a style was unintentionally overridden during other edits.

The team tested a few components from your file but weren’t able to reproduce any unexpected detachment of styles. At this point, the best options would be to either:

  • Manually reattach the styles, or

  • Use “Reset all changes” on the component (please note this will reset all overrides, not just the styles)

We know this isn’t ideal, and we’ll continue to monitor for related reports.

Thanks again for your patience and for helping us look into this! 🙏