I’d like to be able to create aliases for text styles, colors, shadows, etc.
For example, I have the color “Color/Primary/500” and would like to create the color “Button/Primary/Background” that is a link to the first color, so if “Colors/Primary/500” is changed, “Buttons/Primary/Background” would change too.
This would also be useful for text styles, effect styles and any other named style, allowing to create a kind of root tokens that can be reused under different purpose names.
I really hope Figma implements such token based features in the near future.
Would be really great to use that without any plugins.
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Being able to use variables in text styles now makes it possible to create something similar to a typography token in Figma. I also get why Figma is making the distinction of having variables only represent single values and using styles for composites of values.
If there was a way to create “alias”-styles which would only reference other style definitions (just like variable aliases), that would provide parity with design tokens in that regard.
Right now, the only way to represent typography aliases in Figma would be to duplicate a style under a different name (which is not possible without recreating it from scratch because of the missing “duplicate”-option). But since these two styles would then be defined independently, it would defeat the purpose.
Hi @Torsten_Daeges, I appreciate you sharing your thoughts on Text Style.
I came across a similar request from other community members. In order to consolidate all the related feedback, I have reopened this topic and included your input.
Thank you for your valuable contribution!
+1
That’s actually a very practical idea — having style aliases in Figma would make maintaining design systems a lot easier, especially for large teams. Right now, managing color and text tokens manually across multiple projects can get messy, and renaming styles often leads to breaking existing references.
Style aliases could work like “linked variables,” allowing designers to update a base style without affecting its dependent variants directly. This would bring Figma closer to how developers manage tokens in code, improving workflow consistency between design and development.
It’d be great to see the Figma team consider this feature for scalability — especially for organizations that rely on strict design governance and version control.
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