Missing fonts in prototype - Interactive components

Thanks for sharing your response, James. Unfortunately, the recommended “workaround” from Figma has nothing to do with this bug. This is not about missing fonts on any devices, but about fonts that are simply no longer found during the use of the prototype (use of interactive components and variables).

Thanks anyway, maybe this problem will be solved one day. Now that the interactive components no longer have beta status, such blatant errors should no longer occur.

Personally, I find the bug annoying, as such things often happen during a presentation with customers and shareholders. It’s irritating, looks unprofessional to outsiders, as if the prototype wasn’t built properly and weakens the user experience.

This has been an issue for me for years at this point. I have to tell my teams not to use Figma prototypes because they are so unreliable. It’s insane. If Figma worked as advertised, I can’t even imagine how amazing presentations would be. I would use it ALL the time. But unfortunately half of the product is broke with no resolve in sight.

Still there to this day, using the font Oslo. I have never got that before so I suspect it might be font related. Would be interesting to prove that assumption.

Same problem here with FontAwesome Pro. I am observing this behaviour while doing remote testing. Doesn’t happen often but when it happens it ruins everything in the test.

I am also noticing that spacing of buttons stops working, the label goes outside the button and the button doesn’t expand.

To be honest a lot of problem while testing with Figma.

Was this bug magically fixed last week?

Or just working for me on my machine for some reason all of a sudden?

Nope, no magic, still an issue 😦

Wow from 2021 til 2024. After almost 5 yrs, it still happens to me. I used Arial and it still cracked.

I encountered this issue today using a test version of Domaine Display (a paid font - the test version features limited glyphs).

The trigger for my design seemed to be where font styles were switching to an underscore on hover. Removing the underscore resolved this issue.

@Figma team, PLEASE FIX THIS!

Quoted from Figma article to make your own fonts work properly in the client’s browser (or without showing “Some missing fonts were replaced”), your client must:

• Install your fonts in his computer
• Install Figma font installers for windows or mac (aka Figma font helper or FigmaAgent ) which acts as a middle http service under 127.0.0.1 to get all available client’s local fonts for the Figma prototype in the web browser.

Alternatively you must use any of Google fonts in your prototype.

Currently I haven’t found any article described about the embedded custom web fonts to work similarly as the Google fonts which are publicly accessed.

I hope this can help.