Can't add a color (only) library to Figma Slides

Thanks for the feedback! I just shared it internally and let’s also see the reaction from the community. I will change the post category into Share an idea for future enhancements.

Thanks for the feedback again!
Toku

I second Bradee! I can’t find a way to add our teams colour styles to Figma Slides, which seems a bit odd given we use colour styles/variables across our Figma files. It’s making it a bit long winded to create on-brand presentations for stakeholders.

Would be great for this feature to be added please 🙂

We also would like to be able to add our color library to flides like we do in Figma files.

please upvote!

Agreed, upvote. What confuses me the most is that, according to Figma, we should be able to do this already, or at list they mention adding existing libraries on this post.

But I can’t seem to make it work

Would love to see this feature get supported! It’s super useful especially when we have a centralized file/library for managing text styles and colors that are intended to be used across a series of slide decks.

Totally agree with Bradee

Hey all, I figured this one out—you can only see and add a library to your Slides file if it has at least one component published within it. This doesn’t make sense to me, but the way I get around it for my libraries that only have color system variables is just to create and publish a dummy component. Once I do that, the library becomes available to add in Slides. They should consider changing this behavior, but I’m guessing it was intentional since Slides has its own color style tools.

This is problematic and a really confusing experience. Will publish a dummy component to get around but should really be addressed. 

I second Brian Saunders approach - it seems as suggested that at least one component has to be present in order for slides to see the library...weird. This is annoying because I have lots of libraries which are colour/font only