I installed a font on my Mac and it loaded into Figma but registered as 4 different fonts based on styles of the font (e.g. book, medium, bold, black). So I went into FontBook on my Mac and reinstalled a different version of the font. It loaded perfectly into other programs but Figma still displays it as four separate fonts and they aren’t even the complete set so it isn’t usable as is. What can I do about this? Is there any way to delete the current reference or force Figma to re-register the font?
Things I have tried: reloading, web vs. desktop app, deleting the app and reinstalling.
Remove the broken fonts from Font Book. Figma doesn’t store/cache fonts in any way, they are always loaded from your computer when opening the Figma file.
Thanks Gleb, that was basically what I ended up doing. Deleted the fonts, opened Figma to confirm it was not there, quit Figma, installed the font, opened Figma and boom.
It seemed as though Figma apparently will retain the old version of the font if Figma is not open but you uninstall a font and re-install a different file of the same font. It doesn’t replace the font it assumes it’s the old one. This is weird because you said there is no cache. Wonder why.
What font is that? If it’s from Google Fonts, it would be automatically included in Figma and you need to disable “show google fonts” in preferences if you want to use the locally installed version.
It was a company font called Circular Pro. I had a sus version that seemed incomplete, which was giving me problems, but I got the complete version from the Client and that worked fine.
I had a similar issue. I share the font in figma in all my projects. Now I updated the font and was wondering why it is noch changed properly as well as I figured out that the newly installed font had now two different font styles. It took some time but now I remembered that I shared this old version using figma. So I uploaded the new one and removed the old and it is now displayed correctly.
So I was originally using a trial version of a font and then downloaded the paid font and I can’t get it to update even though I have removed the old font and installed the new font on my computer. Figma is still registering it as the old font which no longer exists on my system. How can I fix this?
Double-check Figma font list: Go to your Figma project and check if the old font version is still listed under “local fonts”. If it is, try removing it from there.
Restart Figma: Close Figma completely and reopen it. This might force it to refresh its font cache.
Clear Figma cache: Figma stores font data in its cache. Clearing the cache might help it recognize the new font version. You can usually find the option to clear cache in Figma’s preferences or settings menu.
Font name conflict: Sometimes, even though you’ve removed the old font files, Figma might still reference the old font name. Double-check that the paid font has a slightly different name or version number compared to the trial version If it does, you might need to manually update the font names in your Figma project.
System font cache: If the above steps don’t work, it could be a system-level font cache issue. Try restarting your computer or looking for instructions on how to clear your system’s font cache (this process varies depending on your operating system).
Got it to work after having my entire team remove the old font from their computers and updating to the new one. Also, set the font as a company font which overrides the local fonts. So one of those two things did it!