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Nereida
May 13, 2021
Question

Missing fonts in prototype - Interactive components

  • May 13, 2021
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Hi, I created an interactive component that worked fine until one week ago (more or less). Now, when you hover on it the font changes and shows the message “Some missing fonts were replaced”

163 replies

July 5, 2024

Unfortunately its happening with google fonts like Roboto too for me. The craziest thing is how randomly it starts and stops, so there’s no way of doing a work around cause we don’t know why its happening. The same prototype works for days, until… it just doesn’t?

gorgulimag
July 11, 2024

It doesn’t help. 3 years can’t pay attention and fix this problem. Hey, Figma team, where are you? Can you hear us? This is too minor a problem, because of which you will have to think in the direction of another prototype editor.

Ida_Melank2
July 12, 2024

I think I may have resolved Fontawesome issue on my end. I realised I am only having the issue on my Mac, not PC so narrowed it down to locally installed Fontawesome font.

I disabled the font in my Font Book on Mac. The Fontawesome is now working in my prototype. It seems that Figma was getting confused as it may have been referencing two Fontawesome fonts installed within app vs on my laptop.

I ll keep on monitoring if the issue arises again.

SNagel
New Member
July 19, 2024

We had the same issue as others have posted here. When someone is using the prototype the words would disappear as their mouse ran across them. Some words would stay invisible, rendering the prototype useless. We had the same error of “some missing fonts were replaced”. We tried installing fonts and even updating it all to a common font like Arial and that did not work.
However, we had the idea to go to the Figma Downloads | Web Design App for Desktops & Mobile page and install just the Figma font installer on their machines (even though they were just accessing the link to the prototype and not using Figma itself). This actually worked so there is no longer an issue with missing fonts when they access prototypes. Hopes this helps others!

Maciej_Rabiej
August 5, 2024

Same for me. It even replaced Times New Roman for me.

Artecona_Alicia
September 10, 2024

Same issue here. This post has tons of replies. Please fix this bug 😃

Tal_Drori
September 11, 2024

For me the problem is not when I’m previewing the prototype on my computer, but ether when I’m mirroring it on my phone, or when my clients are viewing the prototype on their computer. It is also very random. In a page with 20 components that are duplicates of the same master component, 4 can have this issue, and the rest will render the font correctly.
I also experience this issue when I change variants in the live prototype.
Figma pleaseeeee fix this. It’s happening for way tooo long. Not cool!

luis.carmona
New Participant
September 14, 2024

Same here, our design system doesn’t use a Google Font and I thought that could be the issue so I switched every text layer to use a similar one on Google Fonts. I worked for a few hours and then back to this annoying error which makes text disappear. So even the error is misleading because it replaced nothing, it actually disappeared!

Claire_Z
September 27, 2024

Guess why I found this post X(
Every time when i open Figma file, text on instances are gone and i need to click them one by one to let them visible, which means i need to remember where should contains text and it duplicate work before review meeting… it is too annoying! hope it can be fixed ASAP…
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Nellya
Power Member
September 27, 2024

@Claire_Z Run Regenerate All Instances command instead of clicking on them