Renaming Colors in Figma Slides

Second this. I can’t seem how to rename colours or effectively use our existing design system colours without the need to create a new colour style. Is it not possible just to link the colour styles from a design system to a template instead of having to create new colour/text styles for that template?

Yes! I wish I could just link the styles to our existing design system. It would be so much more convenient and faster to design slides.

Hey All, thanks for the feedback!

We’ll pass this feedback onto the Slides team for future consideration.

Not being able to rename colors is absolutely bonkers

Color management in Slides is really bad.

Yes it is, at this point color style management is my biggest gripe with Slides. Creating color styles is convoluted, editing them is convoluted, and you can’t seem to change the order in which they appear in the styles list.

I’m not sure what’s going on with the user experience of editing Figma Slide templates.

But it’s frankly the worst part of Figma’s UI. The inconsistent editing and organization of colors and fonts in the “Template Style” is just the tip of the iceberg. You had it all: there was a great UI for organizing local variables and font styles. I really wonder why the team decided to ignore all existing Figma features and come up with a half-baked new solution instead.

Conway’s Law, I guess.

P.S. You “rename” colors by creating new ones and removing the old ones.

Some feature requests:

• Rename Slides
• Rename Colors
• Use Local Variables for Colors
• Either completely hide all libraries (and references to them) or fully support them when picking colors.

Just spent like 20 minutes searching how to rename a color cause it accidentally got combined with the default name. Why can’t I edit? I can’t see how to delete it either.

Is this really the case? So I have created a style for one of our company’s CI-Colors and accidentally got the color-name mixed up with the wrong color value. Is it really the case that I can’t delete that style, nor rename it, nor change it’s color value? 

Might just be my inability, but if that’s really the case then that’s absolutely broken… 😑