Text property changing text style

I’m just encountering this too when creating new components - i have a file with some old ones where this isn’t happening so can see what its supposed to be doing and does already- not multi-editing

For me it also occurred today with a new component. With the old component on the same page, it doesn’t happen. In my new component, as soon as I apply the same text property to the text element in all component variants, the font styles and text colors of all text element are becoming the same in each variant.

Okay, I found a workaround in my case:
I detached the text property from my text elements (throughout all my variants). Then I deleted the text property completely. I created a new text property directly on the component (first being not linked to any text element). I gave it a different name from the old one, just to be sure. Then I selected my text elements again and applied the new text property. Now they all kept their inherent font styles and text colors.

(I realised this, because before my fix, when I applied the text property to my text elements, the font styles were not defaulting to one of the elements’ font styles, e.g. like to the first one’s style, as if the text property just syncs the font styles in addition to the text content. It actually applied a different font style to all the text elements which I have tried out before. So I assume that when I created my original text property, a font style -- and probably color as well -- was somehow linked to that property? Maybe that helps when debugging this.)

Hello,

Hit this one myself, so here's a roundup of the workarounds that have helped me and others in this thread while we wait for a proper fix:

1. Swap the text property value first, then re-apply your text style from the style picker afterwards. Doing it in that order stops the swap from wiping the style out.

2. Set the text style on the main component's text layer itself rather than only overriding it on instances — swapped values inherit whatever is set on the main component.

3. If you use typography variables, binding the individual fields (font family, size, weight) directly to the text layer instead of using a text style seems to dodge the bug entirely — credit to Will Ballard for spotting that one.

4. For colour overrides, disconnecting the fill all the way down to the hex value on the variant helped in Charlesb's case.

Hope one of those unblocks you!