Many design teams use custom fonts to make their designs unique and appealing. Improve your design skills in a specific area, Real-world design problems, Complete a portfolio, Understand the UX design process Access challenges and. The fonts that are synced via the Adobe Fonts service are not visible on the computer's hard disc. Fonts are essential to providing an authentic preview of your designs. If it requires unique fonts to be uploaded then that would be a road block for Adobe Fonts use. I don't know if its Font Helper browser plugin can 'see' all fonts installed locally on a computer. I think Figma relies on Google Fonts for its collection. Locate the downloaded font file in your Downloads folder and extract it from the compressed file.

Begin by downloading the font you wish to import into Figma. Web-based design apps may require a user to upload any fonts that aren't in the app's default collection of fonts. To incorporate local fonts into Figma on your Windows device, follow these steps: Step 1: Go for Figma Font Download. They have to be installed (using the CC desktop app) to be available to other applications installed on the computer. Chromebook and Linux users can only use Google fonts, which are the default fonts. The fonts will either be available 'in Adobe apps' or 'in Adobe & other local apps.' By default, when fonts are added at the Adobe Fonts web site they are only available to Adobe apps. Note: Figma doesnt support local fonts for devices running ChromeOS or Linux. Check the fonts section in the Creative Cloud desktop app. Obvious trouble shooting steps: make sure you're logged into your Creative Cloud account. You can view hidden folders by pressing: Cmd+Shift+.Were fonts from the Adobe Fonts service previously visible in Figma's fonts menu? Does Figma have a desktop-based app or is it entirely web-based? If the app is only web-based (like Canva) it may not be possible to make Adobe Fonts visible in it. If you cannot see the Library, it is most likely hidden. If the same font is available from more than one source, Figma will serve fonts in this order: Shared font uploaded to the organization Local fonts installed on your device Default web fonts provided by Figma Inter is Figmas interface font and is one of the default fonts we provide in Figma. (You should be able to copy paste easily in between folders. Figma uses fonts from three different sources.

Other applications like Photoshop and Illustrator. I’ve taken the following steps to troubleshoot the problem: Font Installation: I’ve verified that the fonts I want to use are correctly installed on my computer. You can launch FontBook from each user account to check for any discrepancy, or use Finder: I’m encountering an issue with Figma’s desktop app, where it’s not recognizing any locally installed fonts on my machine. I found that logging out and then logging back in on both worked. I’m signed up for Creative Cloud and Figma using my Google account. I just installed these fonts also on my personal account and upon relaunch, Figma is now loading everything with no issues. The adobe fonts are activated, but Figma can’t access them, despite having the Fingma font installer. I noticed the fonts that kept being marked as missing, are the ones only installed in my work user account. Figma is loading User_A/Library/Fonts, instead of User_B/Library/Fonts.

Log on User_A first, then log on User_B But if your using Figma in the browser you wont be able to access your local fonts.It seems that whichever account is logged in first, Figma is loading that user’s fonts (User/Library/Fonts), regardless of which user the app is being launched from. I myself am running Figma desktop app on Mac, with a Personal and a Work user accounts. Well, it did until today, when I noticed that my local fonts are not available anymore. local fonts that might be causing the problem. I’m running Figma on linux in the browser with figma-linux-font-helper to enable usage of local fonts this helper is basically a drop-in replacement for the official Figma font helper with the difference that it also works on linux.

Alright folks, I might have an actual solution (if the bug source is the same).ĭon’t know how many of you running into this problem are using multiple user accounts. Sketch, for instance, uses fonts installed locally on your system, whereas Figma.

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