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Missing fonts in prototype - Interactive components


Nereida

Hi, I created an interactive component that worked fine until one week ago (more or less). Now, when you hover on it the font changes and shows the message “Some missing fonts were replaced”

156 replies

Camilo_Bolivar

The same happens to me. I reported the problem 15 days ago but nobody answered me.



David_Davila

I too am having this issue. I was breaking my head trying to figure out what the issue was thinking it was something I did.


Luis_Recuero

Having the same issue here

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Meganne
  • 3 replies
  • May 26, 2021

I am also having this issue. While it looks normal for me, for anybody else without the fonts, the fonts break only in the interactive components, usually on hover. This is super noticeable and broken looking especially with something like Font Awesome.


l-i-n-k
  • 3 replies
  • June 3, 2021

Unfortunately, I can confirm the (mis-)behaviour in our prototype.


Pedro
  • 2 replies
  • June 4, 2021

Same happening here.


Lea_Davoine

Same thing is happening to me as well.


Remy
  • 1 reply
  • June 10, 2021

Same bug for me sadly 😦


Brian_Greenbaum

Same issue for me. Looks like my fonts are falling back to “Inter”, which is quite different from my styles based on Futura. Doesn’t impact me when viewing the proto in Figma, but it impacted the flow of remote user testing I ran this morning with the prototype.


Calvin_Bramlett

Same issue. Fonts changing on hover variant and not changing back.


Marko_Soonurm

Same here!


Darren_Taylor_Door4

Hi
I’ve built an interactive component form which works fine in the browser. When viewed on a phone though some of the fonts load and others don’t. The fonts are a Google font and Font Awesome.
There doesn’t appear to be a pattern, other than where the fonts don’t load the components are multi-variant Interactive Components.
The odd thing is, it doesn’t happen everywhere. Some components with the same fonts and states load fine.


Michelle_Trostel

Also having this issue. On hover, the font resets to some default. I’m not sure what font.

This is actually ruining the whole experience with Figma. Clients don’t have these fonts usually and I don’t want to make them download these fonts either.

Can we get an update on this?


Darren_Taylor_Door4

For those with this issue I can suggest a work around that, while not ideal has allowed me to hit my deadline.
Select the type that is causing the problem and outline it. [<shift><cmd><o>]
It means your type is no longer editable but it’ll display correctly.
For me, I created a duplicate document, detached my components [<alt><cmd><b>] and outlined the text.
Hope this helps someone. 👍


Daniel_Fontaine

Same issue here, we can’t present to client with this kind of bug. Any interactive component that uses a font that’s not locally installed breaks whenever there’s an interaction (IE: mouse over).


Phillip2
  • 1 reply
  • June 26, 2021

I’d like to chime in. This is a big issue. A few weeks back it worked without a hitch, now it’s broken.

Detaching components and outlining type is obviously no fix for complex files.


Geiras_ES

Same happening here! I copied it to another file and it worked fine. Font replacement plugins do not detect any different font other than the supposed.


Marieke
  • 1 reply
  • July 1, 2021

Same here: As I open my prototype, fonts look fine at first sight, but as soon as I hover them, I get the font replacement error, and all my typographic design is basically gone. I hope this can be fixed quickly!


Ken_Ottmann

Same here. Starts with the correct font in default - but hovering in the prototype replaces the Font with a standard system font.


Mag
  • 3 replies
  • July 13, 2021

It’s happening to some of my interactive components utilising Font Awesome types. The font isn’t actually missing. I suspect the bug has to do with its ligatures – when the bug occurs, the text messes up in the same way when i turn off ligatures under type details > letterforms.


Lamin
  • 2 replies
  • July 16, 2021

Still the same issue in July


Andreea_Tilihoi

I am using Font Awesome for icons. When I share a prototype that contains interactions on the icons, the icons change to their code-text on hover.

Fx: if I hover the “house” icon, the icon changes to the word “house”.


Tim
  • 4 replies
  • July 21, 2021

Still having this issue - we had to stop using the interactive components all together.
Super annoying that this has not been fixed 🙂


Michelle_Trostel

This was created back in May. Can we please can an update on this? I’ve basically had to resort back to static prototypes - with no hover interactions. It’s essentially Sketch.

I just want an update or an acknowledgment that this issue is known. I think it’s a pretty big bug and many users are annoyed with it.


Stephenson_Laura

I’m also having this problem! Can we get an update?


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