Change Text Style Fonts in Bulk

Hi @john-mainboard ,
Thank you for your feedback, we’ll pass it along to our team for consideration.
In the meantime, I switched your topic to “Shared an Idea” so we can gauge the overall interest in the community!
(You can also check the plugins created by the users in the community that may help you here)

Hi. Thanks.

The plugin you linked renames the Title of a Style, so it doesn’t actually change the style itself. I’m talking about the actual FONT inside each style. That you currently have no solution for, because if you use a plugin to rename the font, it breaks the style. So the only solution is for me to spend 20 minutes to edit each style, type in the new font name and select it and change the Bold, Italics, Regular to match those found in the new font.

Ahh, I misread this plugin. Thanks for the clarification, we’ll pass it to our team as a feature request!

There is a plug-in names Styler. Give it a go. You can extract existing text styles into layers, detach them, change font family on all layers in bulk and run Styler again to update existing text styles

Yes! Styler works. Thanks!

Another alternative. Fonts can now be set by variable. Simply create a few string variables such as;

• Heading
• Paragraph
• Label

If you know the name of the font then in the font selection pull-down you can set a variable. Point it to the string value that has the font name. Now if you change the string value to another font, it will change all the text that has that variable associated with it. Eliminates the need for plugins. You need to know the exact name of the font and if you update with a font that doesn’t have a corresponding weight it seems to divert to regular. However the work around is that you can set variables for weight and font size as well. So just make sure to create all the variables for your font system, then you can set your branded font by updating the variables right across your whole project.

See images below,

Here is a simple setup. Of course for a full font system you would have more, like labels, or mobile and desktop variations. But food for thought.

That’s actually a clever way to do it, but once you have done this, it’s now almost impossible to see the font and size you’ve assigned to “Heading”. I’ve got all my styles setup on a Sheet for the Devs and yes, after 40 mins of configuring all my styles I’ll be able to change the variable, but like I said the font is then hidden behind 4 screens (with no quick way to view it other than deep clicking), so for me now, the bulk styles is the best way to just change the fonts in the style.

I’m quite surprised that Figma has a robust find and replace but excludes this features specifically for some reason.

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