Hey @Jannis1 , thanks for flagging this! We hear you - this must be frustrating. We’d like to have our support team investigate, you can submit a bug report to our support team directly via the form: here.

Hi there, any update on this one? We are experiencing the same issue! Thanks

Hi @Weston_Ballard ,

For visibility, I can see in the back end that the issue was related due to a missing font. If you see a yellow A? icon:

Manage missing fonts, Manage conflicting fonts and Access local fonts on your computer might all be helpful in clearing those missing font warnings so that changes they make to the variables are reflected in the file’s text.

Still, I recommend you to reach out to the support team to have a deeper look at your file, as it may be another issue. Please contact the team by filling this form: here

Be sure to use your Figma account email, include a link to the file, and share it with support-share@figma.com so they can take a closer look. Thank you!

Hello, I am having this same issue with color variables. I updated all of the names and only half of them displaying the updated names on the right panel.

Hi Team,

I am also facing the same issue. I have passed variables under my previous styles. I have created dark and light mode for all the variables.

When I switch light to dark mode in variables. It doesn’t get applied to all colors. Some colors gets changed, some doesn’t.

This behaviour is different on each page.

Noticed the same behavior. I created a text variable, applied it to a text layer, and when the variable is updated it does not update the text layer. Fonts are installed.

Did Figma just pull all the variable features with the latest update?

I’m experiencing this issue with color variables as well. They update just fine in the file I created them in, but those color variables do not get updated when used in components in other files (even after the file has updated all the component changes).

I’m also experiencing this issue. I just went through and re-named and re-grouped some of my token variables but they aren’t visible in the panels on the right.

FWIW – I checked for updates in Figma to see if that would solve my issue, and it said there was no updates for me, but asked if I wanted to reload all my tabs. I said yes and it seems like it’s fixing some of my variable issues… (although closing out of Figma and restarting it didn’t seem to the trick, apparently reloading the tabs will?)

I have this issue as well. I updated some primitives and even though the associated tokens have been updated in the variable menu, and even show correctly in the colour menu, the items where those tokens were applied to do not update, even in the same file. I restarted, closed and opened tabs, etc. The only way to “fix” this is by individually selecting the affected items, assigning a new colour variable, and then back to the original one…? Pls fix.

Hey Figma. Please get this resolved.

Though you make changes to variables colors in main library file.

A separate file that use that library will not update with the variant colors. Doesn’t work if you update the changes.

Only works if you bring in a new component in. Or reset the whole component. Which is ton of work.

Please fix soon.

the items where those tokens were applied to do not update, even in the same file.

This speaks to a key issue with the way tokens are implemented: there’s a difference between “local” tokens and library/published tokens even within the file the library tokens are from.

The (EXTREMELY ANNOYING) fix for this is to change all your tokens to the library versions of the tokens once you publish the library, and make sure that going forward you’re diligent about publishing the library after you make changes to the local variables, then applying the changes you made to the global variables via the component update menu. That’s the only way to keep the two consistent.

I think this process makes no sense and hope they change it.

Same issue here. Local tokens simply not updating when flipping a page to dark mode. Library tokens working fine.

It doesn’t make sense to create a library token just for this one instance. This is a definite bug and notably impacts the usability of tokens as a whole if I can’t trust they are working properly.

This may be an annoying workaround, but reloading the tab helps me refresh the variables.

Does this bug was fixed? I have the same problem, When I am creating a new component or updating an existing one with variable, the variable disapear if I am using the component in another tab/project.

Very annoying 😕 Is there a way to fix that? I tried to refresh tab but it does not work.

Any update on this? Seems the problem persists. It is very time consuming to have to update the variables in the design manually.

Hi! I’m experiencing the same issue. Tokens updates in my library are not reflected in the design file. Is there any advice on this?

Same issue here - I have set up Light and Dark mode color variables in a “Master Design System” file. Upon changing a few color variables for Dark mode, they aren’t water-falling into files which use this Design System library.

I’m having to go into the color setting of each component in my working file to manually select the new variable, which does show accurately. Again, just having todo it manually.

I have a similar issue and it reproduces 100% of times. Any color variable I have in a library file will not update in local files if I change it in the library and publish it. I can see the color changing in the color selection menu, but the actual object will stay the color it was when assigned originally. This makes using variables as library tokens useless. 😿

Are there still no updates on this? Funnily enough, I am working my way through this Figma tutorial on youtube and can’t follow along at 7:03. Was hoping to implement this in our design system to make things more consistent, but not looking good so far.

I am having the same problem. I just changed the opacity from 100% to 33% of a variable, published the variable, and then updated the variables in another file. The opacity change is not showing up.

In fact, I am having a general updating problem across many files. The changed in the styles and components are not showing up

I was experiencing a similar issue with font families and weights defined by variables within local styles. Updating variables would not update the actual font appearance in many elements.

Finally realized that variables where not the culprit, since I had the same issue when updating font sizes NOT using variables within local styles. Turns out only fonts within components would not update unless entering text frame edition.

Running the quick command (ctrl + /) “Regenerate all instances (slow)” after any local style update, including via variable changes, works for me so far. Might be useful to those that came upon this thread like me.

Same issue when dealing with components. Variables dont update unless clicked all the way in the instance …Very frustrating 😠

I’m having the very same issue. Still no fix for that?