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Please let us save colors in text styles

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
May 28, 2024
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Figma:

If you’re used to working in another design tool, you may find it strange that your text styles in Figma don’t include traits like color or justification. Although it could take some getting used to, hopefully the benefits of this approach will quickly become clear.

Well, no it didn’t. And strange indeed. In addition to getting used to, it takes a lot of time to to change the color every single time I create a new text element, because our text color is not black. Having a default color saved with text styles would be SO. MUCH. EASIER.
I see no reason why the color can’t be in there and also be changed when using the style, if necessary.

Celine_

Community Support

Thanks for your feedback! We’ll pass it along to our team for consideration. Do not also forget to vote up your idea (next to the topic’s title).

(At this time it’s not possible to set a colour as part of a text style, and you’ll need to apply a colour style separately to any text styles you apply. For now, as a workaround, where applying these two styles separately is difficult or time consuming, you might want to componentize specific text elements with both styles applied for ease of access and documentation.)

fab1AnAuthor

New Participant

Thank you. Funny that I can/have to vote up my own idea 😃

Margaret_Hogg

I’d also really like this feature. For example, if I’m working on a website and links are going to always be the same shade of blue, why do I have to set that color every time I apply the “link” style?

It can also be really frustrating to try to catch in situations where a brand-approved text color is very close to, but not exactly, black.

Drew_Cain

New Participant

I find it alarming that Figma is so incredibly powerful and yet there’s no way to do this without a workaround. Seems like every UI designer out there should be screaming for this.

fab1AnAuthor

New Participant

Alarming indeed. They seem to have shifted focus away from designers quite some time ago. First towards developers, which still makes some sense, and now towards suits with FigJam, Slides and questionable “AI” functions. It’s sad, but not unusual. Expansion is more important than support of the existing user base.

abreese

New Member

I’m new to UX/UI and Graphic Design, after watching the FigmaConfig summit a few weeks ago I was really hoping the launch of all those extra features would also mean cleaning up some of these things that seemed like a given to me. Things like snap to layout guides either doesn’t work or is inconsistent, I can’t save a color when saving a text style, and there is no type on a path tool.

kiprou

New Participant

Please, for the love of God, let us bake a default color into text styles so we don’t have to manually re-color every heading, body copy, and link in every design.