Note: If you have a different UI than in the course, you can change it back by clicking the '?' in the bottom right corner of Figma and select 'Go back to previous UI'. Happy Figma'ing!

Figma UI UX Design Essentials

How to fix missing fonts in Figma

Course contents
SECTION: 1
Getting Started 30:36
SECTION: 2
Wireframing - Low Fidelity 11:03
SECTION: 3
Type, Color & Icon Introduction 1:12:34
SECTION: 4
Pages 8:32
SECTION: 5
Prototyping - Level 1 30:08
SECTION: 6
Animation Level 1 10:46
SECTION: 7
Commenting 14:09
SECTION: 8
Moodboard - High Fidelity 13:40
SECTION: 9
Columns 13:54
SECTION: 10
Tips & Tricks 7:21
SECTION: 11
Colors 34:48
SECTION: 12
Text & Fonts Advanced 47:48
SECTION: 13
Drawing 35:41
SECTION: 14
Working with Illustrator 4:16
SECTION: 15
Images 17:55
SECTION: 16
Working with Photoshop 11:58
SECTION: 17
Autolayout & Constraints 52:08
SECTION: 18
Effects 15:30
SECTION: 19
Saving & History 5:42
SECTION: 20
Components & Instances 36:15
SECTION: 21
Variants 23:04
SECTION: 22
Making a form 34:05
SECTION: 23
Prototyping - Level 2 43:01
SECTION: 24
Teams & Projects 5:19
SECTION: 25
Libraries 11:03
SECTION: 26
Animation & Micro Interactions 1:05:40
SECTION: 27
Thumbnail update 4:10
SECTION: 28
Exporting 34:21
SECTION: 29
What next 15:53

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Course info

114 lessons / 12 hours 29 quiz questions 22 projects Certificate of achievement

Overview

Hi there - my name is Dan Scott & welcome to Figma Essentials.

Together - you and me - are going to learn everything you need to get started working as a UX Designer using Figma.

You can try Figma for free by clicking here.

We’ll use this UI UX design tool to create beautiful User Interfaces and engaging prototypes. Most importantly... we'll cover the client expectations of you as a new UX designer. 

This course is aimed at people new to design, new to User Experience design. Even if you’re not totally sure what UX really means, don’t worry. We’ll start right at the beginning and work our way through step by step. 

First we’ll describe the brief & how to work with a UX persona.  

Then you’ll learn how to create simple wireframes.  

From there we’ll look at how to implement colours & images properly in your designs.

You’ll learn the do’s & don’ts around choosing fonts for web & mobile apps. 

You’ll learn how to create your own icons, buttons & other UI components. 

You’ll learn some pretty scary terms such as Components, Constraints & Multi Dimensional Variants. They are all really easy to understand once you know how. 

We’ll also make our lives easier by using free UI kits & plugins for Figma which will speed up our workflow dramatically!

We’ll build a simple Style Guide ready for client handoff. 

You’ll understand how to make both simple & advanced micro interactions, page transitions & animations 

Before the end of this course you will have made fully interactive prototypes 

You will take a project all the way through -  collaborating with other team members and exporting the right files ready to hand off to your developer or software engineer. 

We’ll be focusing on the software Figma but I’ll make sure to explain the techniques & terms used in the UX and how real world projects are run. You will develop a great understanding of the industry and will be able to manage your own UX projects.

I will be setting assignments through the course which will help develop your skills and enable you to create something special and unique for your own portfolio. 

Alright - it's time to upgrade yourself & go from Figma Zero to Figma Hero.

Daniel Scott

Daniel Scott

Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor

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I discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.

Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.

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Transcript

Hi everyone, this video we are going to look at what to do when you've got a missing font, you can see it here, question mark, with an A, or an A with a question mark here, what do you do? 

Well, basically you just click it and replace it, there's a teeny tiny bit more to it, it's a short video, stick around, hang out, and I'll show you all the different ways of replacing missing fonts. 

All right, replacing fonts that you don't have, there's a couple of ways, I was using this kit here, I wanted to use the fields, they've got some really cool, thank you, Machiel. I duplicated it, opened it up, and I was like, "Great", and I went to copy out all the fields, and I liked the text that was in it as well, for my project, and there was a missing font. 

You can kind of see it up here in this original document, it doesn't really matter if it happens here, or let's say I copy it and I move it into my document, I paste it in, it will come along for the ride, it's like, "Hey, you're missing…" so what to do? 

The first thing to do is, just see if, if you like the font, this one's called Helvetica Now Display, you might go and download it, it might be a free font, that's what I did for these. I have this font on my machine now, because it was called Inter, and I liked it, it was a really nice, simple-- I'm clicking in, I'm breaking his style, and going, ah, 'Enter', I just went and downloaded it, I can't remember where I got it from, it was free, it was like great, and then that little, this little thing went away, this one here, I didn't want to use, so I just left it, but let's use that as an example. 

Let's say that we do want this, you might check, you might actually have it on your machine, it might be called something else, so Helvetica, I don't have Helvetica now, but I've got Helvetica Bold, is that good enough? It's not the same but might be close enough. Let's say I don't want to do that, let's say that I want to switch it out for something, because I like the lock up of this, but I want to use my fonts. 

So you can either select the text here, and click it over here, and just change it, or there's a kind of a fancier way, at the top here, where you could say, "That is missing, go throughout the entire document and replace it with…" 

I'm using Crimson Pro, does Crimson Pro have a black? It does. This other one here, I'm going to use the Dosis, I'm using Regular for my body copy, hit 'Replace', look at that. So you can do it up here for kind of everything, and if I undo this one here, you can do it specifically for that particular font, here in the text, in this kind of like right panel here. 

All right, that is missing fonts, go and download them, if they are free, and you want to use them. Check that your machine has them, and they're not called something else, or switch them out using either the little icon up here, or in your little text, right hand panel thing. 

 All right, that's missing fonts, I'll see you in the next video.

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