Figma Slides – Color Bug?

Hey ​@Joost van den Berg — thanks for flagging this, and sorry for the trouble.

Quick question: Are you copying slides from other files into your template? If so, this might be related to this issue that other Figma Slides users have reported — our product team is tracking it.

If that doesn’t match what you’re seeing, could you share a few more details on the steps leading up to the the unexpected behavior? That’ll help me test further and escalate appropriately. 🙏🏻

Hi ​@Joost van den Berg — thanks for sharing all this context, and sorry to keep you waiting here.

I walked through the steps you outlined (super helpful, thank you!) but wasn’t able to reproduce the same behavior on my end. To confirm, these are the issues I was looking for:

1. fill colors showing up under Others in this deck that aren’t part of the template
2. unexpected colors getting added to slides when using the 🔀 Remix template colors button.

If you're still seeing this happen, we’d love to take a closer look at the file where this showing up. When you have a moment, could you loop in our Product Support team directly and include the following?

• a link to this Forum thread for reference
• a link to the affected file
• edit access granted to support-share@figma.com.

That’ll help us get a clearer picture and investigate further. I’ll keep a lookout for other reports and thanks again for bringing this to our attention.

Hello @Tom Reem,
I can confirm Joost’s inquiry: in Figma Slides, removed template colors are still available for “Remix Template Colors”, showing up as broken variables.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create a new Figma Slides file
2. Remove some template colors
3. Use the “Remix slide colors” function
4. “Ghost” template colors don’t necessarily show up immediately due to the random nature of the remix button, but they will eventually appear.

I have created a quick screencast as a follow-up:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/4jdkvj7p940wrgtqgib51/Figma-Slides-Removed-template-colors-still-available-for-Remix-2025-08-05-at-12.27.44.mov?rlkey=euts4dzyr67id8k5pvtj10oww&dl=0

Thank you for looking into this issue.

Hey ​@Giancarlo_Gamberini — thank you for your followup and for taking the time to record that screencast. It makes the expectation and the issue much clearer to me.💡

I’ll continue testing on my side and share your findings with the appropriate team members. We’ll follow up here with any updates as soon as they’re available.

Again, I appreciate the detail you’ve both brought to this — it really helps us understand the situation.

​@Tom Reem  is this being fixed, I am having the same issue, I am preparing a template to try and get my organisation to use Slides instead of powerpoint,  but this will be an issue that will stop this from happening. 

​@Tom Reem I did just find a workaround for this issue, If you reload the tab it reset it with the new colours  and the old ones have gone. 

Reloading the tab doesn’t work for me, using the remix function brings back old deleted variables.. Very annoying, Figma Slides is riddled with bugs :(