Figma Figma Design Systems and Styles 1 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: What are 'Styles' in Figma used for?
- Defining canvas background colors only
- Saving reusable properties like colors, typography, effects, and grids for consistent use (Correct answer)
- Automating prototype flows
- Exporting design tokens to code
Correct answer: Saving reusable properties like colors, typography, effects, and grids for consistent use
Figma Styles let you save and reuse color, text, effect, and grid definitions across your design, ensuring consistency and easy global updates.
Question 2: How do you create a new color style in Figma?
- Right-click the canvas and select New Style
- In the Design panel, click the four-dot grid icon next to a fill and choose Create Style (Correct answer)
- Open Plugins and use the Style Manager
- Use File > New Style
Correct answer: In the Design panel, click the four-dot grid icon next to a fill and choose Create Style
Clicking the four-dot style icon next to a fill in the Design panel opens an option to save that fill as a named color style.
Question 3: What is a 'text style' in Figma?
- A font file uploaded to Figma
- A saved combination of font family, size, weight, line height, and letter spacing (Correct answer)
- A text animation preset
- A style that only controls text color
Correct answer: A saved combination of font family, size, weight, line height, and letter spacing
A text style captures a full typographic definition — font, size, weight, line height, and spacing — so you can apply it consistently across your designs.
Question 4: In Figma, what are 'Variables' (as opposed to Styles)?
- Programming variables used in plugins
- Stored values like colors or numbers that can be aliased and used in theming and prototyping logic (Correct answer)
- A deprecated feature replaced by Styles
- Variables are only for numeric values
Correct answer: Stored values like colors or numbers that can be aliased and used in theming and prototyping logic
Variables in Figma store discrete values (colors, numbers, strings, booleans) that can be aliased for theming, mode switching, and conditional prototype logic.
Question 5: What does 'Local styles' mean in the Figma Assets panel?
- Styles imported from a team library
- Styles defined and stored within the current file only (Correct answer)
- Styles applied to local components
- Styles used in the current selection
Correct answer: Styles defined and stored within the current file only
Local styles are color, text, effect, or grid styles created and saved within the current file, not published to a team library.
Question 6: How do you update all instances of a style across a Figma file after editing the style definition?
- Manually reapply the style to each layer
- The change propagates automatically to all layers using that style (Correct answer)
- Use Edit > Replace Style
- Re-export the file and reimport
Correct answer: The change propagates automatically to all layers using that style
When you edit a style's definition, all layers that reference that style update automatically throughout the file.
Figma Figma Design Systems and Styles 1
What are 'Styles' in Figma used for?