Missing fonts when I have all the fonts installed

Hey Micha, generally if you’re seeing this warning for a system font, this indicates that the font stored on your system is different from the one used in your file, possibly because another editor has an older version installed (perhaps on Windows?), or the system font was recently updated. Manage conflicting fonts and Manage missing fonts cover these kinds of font versioning issues in more detail.

You ‘should’ be able to select the matching values in the Missing fonts modal to clear the issue. The desktop app cache could do the trick. Could you try clearing the cache by following these steps:

1. Quit the Figma desktop app
2. Open Terminal.app and enter the following command: rm -rf "$HOME/Library/Application Support/Figma/"{Desktop,DesktopProfile}
3. Try opening the desktop app again

Hi there!
I’m having this same problem. I’ve installed new fonts and started a project - then, in the next day when I’ve opened Figma again I’ve got the missing fonts warning. Only me have access to the file.Even by reinstalling the fonts, closing Figma and reopening again, and even by clearing cache in terminal. Any idea what might be the issue?

Now, after this, I see the issue happening to all new fonts I have installed - I can’t see them in Figma.

Thanks!

Hey Celina,
Sorry to hear you are having issues, this looks odd! As you have installed the font on your computer and you are the only one who has access - or edit- to the file, you shouldn’t have the missing fonts warning. Can you also make sure either the Figma Daemon, Figma Font Helper, or Font Service is running on your computer’s activity monitor?

For more details about how to manage missing fonts, here is our article: https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/articles/360039956994-Manage-missing-fonts

If this doesn’t help, I’d suggest you to reach out directly to the support team with a copy of your file: here
The support team can investigate it further. Be sure to use your Figma account email, include a link to the file, and share it with support-share@figma.com so they can take a closer look. Thank you!

I was working in a few different files and Figma stopped pulling all my local fonts. Files are still on my computer. I didn’t do anything and it all of a sudden told me all my local fonts were gone in all my files.

I tried opening the terminal and using the command given above but that didn’t work.

@Celine_Figma

The same thing happened to me!!

I have installed fonts on my computer, they have been working just fine all year and now just today they are all missing. I think there is a bug on Figma’s end with their latest update. Please fix!!! this is not a user error and I cannot fix on my end.

Hey there! Thanks for flagging this, and sorry to hear this is happening.
It would be great to investigate directly with your file to see if we can replicate it.

As mentioned, if the workarounds don’t help, I’d like our support team to investigate it further to check the root cause on your end. Please reach out to them directly by filling this form: here
Be sure to use your Figma account email, mention the steps you did, include a link to the file, and share it with support-share@figma.com so they can take a closer look. Thanks!

What worked for me was installing the fonts so that they show up under “All User Fonts” on Mac’s Font Book–as opposed to just in “My Fonts” or “All Fonts”. After you do this, restart Figma. Copy pasted method via ChatGPT:

To make fonts available to all users on a Mac, you’ll need to install them into the /Library/Fonts directory. Here’s how you can do it:

1. Find the Fonts: Locate the font files you want to install. These are usually .ttf or .otf files.
2. Open Finder: Click on Finder in your dock to open a new Finder window.
3. Go to the Folder: In the Finder menu at the top of the screen, click on Go and then Go to Folder....
4. Type the Path: Enter /Library/Fonts into the window that pops up and hit Enter. This will take you to the system-wide Fonts folder.
5. Install the Fonts: Drag and drop your font files from where they are currently saved into the /Library/Fonts folder.

By placing fonts in this folder, they will be accessible to all user accounts on your Mac. If you don’t have the necessary permissions to add fonts to this folder, you may be prompted to authenticate as an administrator.

I’m having the exact same issue as Celina was describing.
Any idea how to solve this?

Hey @Oren_Savidor , sorry to hear you are also having issues.
This article has some workarounds to manage your missing fonts, please have a look at it first:

And, if this doesn’t help, the best option will be to reach out directly to the support team so they can investigate further the root cause on your end here
Be sure to use your Figma account email, include a link to the file, and share it with support-share@figma.com so they can take a closer look 🙂

Hey all, so after having this same issue for a while, I reached out to Figma’s support and Nancy quickly followed up with me and sent me a few solutions.

The solution that worked for me was to right click on the font, click “Show more options” and click “Install for all users” (if Windows 10, skip the “Show more options” part)

This really solved the issue. You should post this on all the community discussions about this topic. There are so many people suffering from that. Thsi immediatly helped! Thanks!!

Same issue here. None of the suggested solutions help. Only restarting the machine seems to solve the issue, but only for a day or so. Even if I don’t close the files and come back to them the next day, fonts show up as missing, despite they’re in the Fonts folder, properly installed, showing up in other applications.

Hey @Tibor1, sorry to hear this!

What OS are you using? And is this happening in the desktop app or the browser?

There are different workarounds and solutions depending on your device’s OS.

Hello @dvaliao thank you for your response. I’m on MacOS Sonoma 14.3.1. and I am using the desktop app.

Thanks, @Tibor1!

Since the fonts are already installed on your computer, you’ll want to check that you can see all of your fonts in your Font Book.

If you can see your fonts there, try clicking on the fonts that are missing in Figma then right-click to show the menu below:

From there, click “Validate Font” to see if this resolves your font issues. You can see more details in Apple’s Font Book User Guide below:

Thanks for the suggestion @dvaliao , I tried it but didn’t help. The fonts are validated but show up as missing in Figma (were available yesterday) and don’t show up in search within the app either.

Thanks for following up, @Tibor1!

I’m going to connect you with our Technical Quality team to investigate further. I’ve create ticket #1126848 and included the information you’ve provided here. Feel free to add any additional details to support directly.

Someone will review and be in touch soon!

Fixed this. Had same issue - worked one day and not the next. Local fonts were missing. Went to help and account>account settings>(scroll down)>Fonts

It said local fonts were not enabled and to enable it had a button to isnstall a Figma plugin which i did and the issue was immediately fixed.

Had to do it again today. Not too much trouble but seems like a bug if it’s happening every day.

Hi, I have the same problem.
Operating system: Windows 11
Figma desktop, current version
Font installed and showing everywhere, including Figma. After restarting the computer, the font is still installed, but Figma doesn’t see it. I have to reinstall the font for her to see it again.

The setting part from Lex5: Fonts - Download installer is not there at all.

I’ve got the same problem! 

I tested around, it is strange that even I uninstall a font, restart the figma, the uninstalled font is showing up in figma as “font installed by you”

Is it the problem related to font cache?

Wish this could be fixed, thanks!

OS: win10

Hi ​@seec1111 , 

Do you still have any text layers that still use the uninstalled font? If so, could you try switching them to a new font?

Thanks!

Toku