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"Missing Font" warning on Figma Make, but those fonts aren't being used at all

  • May 27, 2026
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Gabriel Romero Ricardo

When I Click “Publish” on my Make project, I see a “Missing Fonts” warning:
 


Clicking the warning shows the missing fonts are Menlo and Halcom:
 


However, these 2 fonts are not being used at all in the project. I can confirm this after having downloaded the codebase to Sublime Text and perfoming a project-wide search for “menlo” and “halcom” and not having found any occurrences. Make itself confirms this via prompt:

 


I have done all these steps and can’t find a solution.

The official documentation page for this subject (https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/articles/38694569552151-Upload-a-web-font-to-Figma-Make) which is reached by clicking “Learn More” on that very screen, says there should be a Delete button on the fonts:


However ​​​​​​, as can be seen from the second screenshot in this post, there isn’t such a thing.

I’ll follow Make’s own advice and ignore that warning, but it is an odd and annoying thing that it happens.

I know I could try downloading the fonts, uploading them and seeing if either the warning goes away or if a delete button finally appears, but these fonts are commercial, and I can’t pay for something just to delete it. Plus I might be introducing bloat into my software by doing that, so I don’t want to do it.

Anyone knows how to make that warning go away, or make the broken fonts stopped appearing in that panel?

Thanks!

6 replies

Jaycee Lewis
Figmate

Hey ​@Gabriel Romero Ricardo 👋 Thanks for flagging this. I know how annoying it is to deal with ghost warnings, but I'm glad you're able to work around it for now!

I'd love to gather a bit more context to help us investigate what's going on. A couple of quick questions to get us started:

  • Was this Figma Make project started from a Figma Design import, a template, or a pure prompt?
  • Is the project linked to a Figma Design file?

Thank you for the additional information! — Jaycee

Gabriel Romero Ricardo

Thanks for the response ​@Jaycee Lewis !

  • I wasn’t at the project at its inception, but I would guess it started with a “prompt + attached design frame” combo, because the person who started the project used to do attach frames on their prompts a lot
  • About the project being linked to a design file, I wasn’t aware that that was a feature. How do I check for that?

 

Jaycee Lewis
Figmate

Thanks for the quick follow-up, ​@Gabriel Romero Ricardo! That detail about attached frames is a great clue.

I think it's a good clue because my working hypothesis is that the "Missing fonts" warning in Figma Make may be flagging fonts referenced by layers from the Figma Design frames attached to your original prompt, rather than anything in the generated code itself. That would fit with why your project search for "Menlo" and "Halcom" turned up nothing — the references could be riding in from the imported designs.

The best place to check is the prompt/chat history in your Make file. Scroll back through the conversation and look at the attachments on the early prompts — those are the imported Figma Design frames. This article shows how designs get attached to prompts, for more context.

If any of them used Menlo or Halcom, that's likely where the warning is coming from.

If you can check those attached frames for Menlo/Halcom, we'll know whether this is expected inherited-font behavior or something else. — Jaycee

Gabriel Romero Ricardo

My Make file is currently at version 1665. I don’t think it’s feasible to scroll all the way up to the initial prompt to see what’s attached. I did try, and the loadings of previous prompts in the chat history start getting longer and longer after a couple hundred versions up. So assuming I just can’t scroll back all the way up, unless I spend a good ammount of time tediously scrolling up and hoping the memory usage on my computer doesn’t crash. So I’m not doing that.

I tried making a copy of the file (so I wouldn’t risk my master file), and trying to revert that copy to one of the earlier versions through the Version History drop-down on the top-right of the chat, which is a simpler list and therefore easier to scroll all the way. It says “Couldn’t fetch this version” when I click the version, and “this version isn’t ready to restore yet. Try again in a minute” when In try to restore a version. Assuming version restore won’t work then.

What I can do, which I just did, is take a look at the Figma Design file which contains all the frames (or at least, all the ones that I know of) that were used during development of the Figma Make app in question.

I used a plugin to scan all the typography being used everywhere in that file. I found no reference at all to Menlo or Halcom.

adamsmasher
Figmate
  • adamsmasher
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  • June 7, 2026

Hey, ​@Gabriel Romero Ricardo! Stepping in for ​@Jaycee Lewis. 

 

This is pretty weird! Seems like you’ve done a pretty thorough investigation to rule out any references to those fonts. In the copy you created, was the chat history also present with the copy? I’m wondering if clearing the context would help. You can’t undo this, which is why I was wondering if it was present in the copy so you still have it in the original. To do this in Make:

  1. Click the Settings gear icon in the top-right corner of the screen.
  2. In the General tab, click Clear context at the bottom of the General section.

 

Let me know what you find out! I’m also asking internally to see if there’s anything we might be missing here.

Gabriel Romero Ricardo

It says “No Context Found” when I click “Clear Context”

Another update: I was able to revert to Version one on a test copy. I then downloaded the codebase and opened it on Sublime Text.

I CTRL+F’ed for “halcom” and “menlo”. Zero results.

I believe this confirms that these 2 fonts were never used at all, not even on the very first version of the project.

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