# My chart's fonts look wrong in Figma

> The preview and the inserted chart get their fonts from two different places, so one can be right while the other is not. Insert as SVG and the plugin loads the real Figma font before it places the chart.

> **Note:** The default is Inter at 12px, weight 400 — the one family Figma always ships, which is also why a font that fails to load ends up looking like Inter.

> **Tip:** Use the text-style picker beside the Font field to bind chart text to one of your Figma text styles, so charts follow the same type scale as the rest of the file.

> **Note:** A missing font never blocks an insert. The chart still lands on the canvas; only the text that could not be loaded is substituted.

## Steps

1. Set the font in the Configuration tab, under Appearance → Typography: Font, Size and Weight. The list is Figma's own font list, so anything you can pick here, Figma can render.
2. If a small note appears under the picker saying the preview may show a substitute, believe it — only the preview is affected. Judge that font on the canvas, not in the plugin window.
3. Insert with + SVG (or Update SVG). SVG chart text becomes real Figma text layers and the plugin loads every family and weight the chart needs first. + PNG bakes whatever the preview drew into pixels instead.
4. If only one part of the chart is off — usually the title — check that your family actually has that weight in Figma. Weights become Figma style names: 400 is Regular, 500 Medium, 600 Semi Bold, 700 Bold, and titles use Semi Bold unless you say otherwise.
5. Fix it by choosing a weight the family really ships, or a family that has the weight you want. When the exact style is missing, the text falls back to Regular and then to whatever Figma substitutes.
6. To give one element its own font, open its group — Title, for example — turn off Use Global Typography and set the font there. Everything else keeps following the global setting.

_Topics: fonts, typography, insert_

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