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

I searched the community and didn’t find this listed…
I cannot seem to add a library that is styles / color only? to Figma Slides which is how we separate some of our libraries.

Leveraging how existing users would expect to accomplish this task … a manage libraries feature… wouldn’t confuse new users as they could still use the new way but help your existing millions of pro Figma designers find their way here. Hep? Pluz?

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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

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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 :slight_smile:

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

please upvote!

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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

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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.

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