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Copy Failed. Your selection might be too large for the clipboard

  • July 17, 2026
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badinku

For this week I tried coping a group of text styles and colour styles from a file but i always get the”Copy Failed. Your selection might be too large for the clipboard”  error so i tried it for a single text style and the same error was displayed and i did the same for a single colour style and i still couldn’t copy the style
this is a huge problem for me can anyone help me with a fix for it?

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Jaycee Lewis
Figmate

Hey hey ​@badinku 👋 That error popping up definitely not what should happen.

A couple things that'll help me pin this down:

  • Could you send a quick screen recording of the steps you're taking, from selecting the style through the copy attempt? Specifically: are you right-clicking the style in the Styles panel and choosing "Copy style" (or using Ctrl/Cmd+C there), or are you selecting a layer/object and copying that?
  • What OS and are you on the desktop app or in browser?

One thing worth checking in the meantime — copying a style itself works a bit differently than copying an object that has a style applied to it. Here's the doc on the intended flow

Thanks for the additional info! — Jaycee

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