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Variables do not update in design

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July 4, 2023
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I am working with a colleague and some local variables simply do not update in the design when she is entering new values in the local variables window. Some do, some don’t.

I on the other hand are able to update all variables with no issue.

Both are using latest Figma Version via App. Only difference she is working on Windows, I am on Mac.

Components, variants and instances

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Best answer by Celine_

Hi @Weston_Ballard ,
For visibility, I can see in the back end that the issue was related due to a missing font for your case. 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 as an Editor so they can take a closer look. Thank you!

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Courtney_Zavaleta

New Member

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.

Terence_Curtis

New Participant

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

Frannn

New Participant

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.