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A way to export/import styles (text + colors)

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February 1, 2021
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I’m working in an agency developing (among other things) design systems for our clients. Recently we ran into an issue while transferring a design system project we had started, to the client’s organization. Without going to too much detail (we are solving the issue with Figma support) a lot of headache could have been avoided, if styles would be as easy to transfer between files, as components.

At least to my understanding, there currently isn’t a way to transfer/copy&paste a style from a Figma file to another (w/o plugins at least).

Am I the only one missing a native feature in Figma to achieve this? Also, handling multiple style values and descriptions at once would be fantastic! This is possible with plugins atm. But I think it would be welcome feature to have better style management natively in Figma.

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Siryi

Dudes why use plugins or other headache if you can cut the style to other file and then just paste where-ever needed? (hope figma doesn’t remove this hack lol)

Dennis_Kuiper

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Wish we could just load in JSON files easily. Would be nice if we can connect it to Gitlab/hub so devs and designers use the same source for styling.

Arun_Pich_Ream

For your information, I had found a plugin where you can import and export style from one file to another which is also a free plugin.

Style Transfer

Figma

Caju

Hello, I’ve found a way.
Select (Shift + Click) the text/colors styles from the file you want > Right click > Cut Styles > Then press Cmd Z to re paste the styles on the original file.
Go to the new file and right click on styles and choose paste.