I encountered what appears to be a bug after publishing components from a regular design file.
This file was originally a design file, not a library. I decided to publish its components and styles so they could be reused in another file.
After publishing, all text layers inside component instances in the same file lost their text style assignments.
Expected result:
Publishing components should not affect existing text style links inside the current file.
Actual result:
- All text layers inside component instances became locally formatted.
- Typography did not change (font, size, weight, line height, etc. all remained identical).
- The text style name disappeared and only the raw typography properties were shown.
- Main components kept their text styles correctly.
- Only component instances lost their text style links.
- The text styles themselves still existed.
- Manually selecting the same text style immediately restored the connection without changing the appearance.
- Republishing the library and restarting Figma did not resolve the issue.
As a result, I had to restore an earlier version of the file and manually recover subsequent edits.
This happened immediately after publishing the components from the design file.