Manage Community profiles and settings

Manage your Community profile and other Community settings, including handle, profile connections, primary email, notifications, and purchased resources.

Manage your Community profile

1. Open Figma in the file browser.
2. Click your profile picture in the top-left to open the account menu.
3. Select Community profile to open your profile in the file browser.

Manage extra information on your profile:

1. Profile picture: This can be different than your internal profile picture. Click on your profile picture to upload a new image. Image dimensions must be at least 500 x 500 px.
2. Cover artwork: Hover over the cover photo and click to upload cover artwork.
3. Bio: Add a brief description of up to 160 characters.
4. Location: Click to add or update the location of the creator, team, or organization.
5. Websites: Click to add or update the website. This can be a link to a business website or support page. There are dedicated fields for Twitter and Instagram.

Your profile will show any files, plugins, and widgets you've been listed as a creator or contributor on. Choose which files, plugins, and widgets appear on the profile:

• Publish Community files
• Make plugins for the Figma Community
• Remove or unpublish Community files
• Remove published plugins
• Remove published widgets

Manage profile connections

Connect your Community profiles to interact with the Community from a single profile.

• Merge existing Community profiles under separate Figma accounts
• Publish content to a single profile across different Figma accounts
• Follow, like, and comment without having to switch between profiles

Add and remove profile connections →

Manage primary email

Choose the primary email for your Community profile. Figma will use this email address for:

• Any Community notifications
• Your display name and profile picture

You can update this setting when you leave a team or organization. This makes sure your Community profile and notifications are linked to an account you have ownership of.

To set an email address as your primary email, you need to add the associated Figma account as a Profile connection ↑

1. Open the account menu in the top-left corner of the file browser and select Settings > Community.
2. Under the Primary email setting, click to open the primary email menu.
3. Select the email address you want to use as your primary email.

Change profile handle

Update the handle for you Community profile in your account settings.

You can use up to 15 alphanumeric characters in your handle, including underscores _. Figma will check if a handle is still available. If it's not available, Figma will ask you to choose another.

1. Open the account menu in the top-left corner of the file browser and select Settings > Community.
2. Under the Unique handle setting, click Change handle.
3. Enter your desired handle in the field provided and click Submit to confirm.

Community notifications

You will receive in-app notifications for activity related to the Community. You can choose to also receive email notifications for comments on your published resources, replies, and @mentions. Learn more about email notifications →

Delete Community profile

Delete your profile to remove your public Community profile. This won't delete your Figma account or affect your internal profile.

Deleting a profile will:

• Unpublish any files, plugins, or widgets you have published. You can still access files and plugins within your account.
• Remove you as a creator from files, plugins, and widgets you contributed to. This won't unpublish those files, plugins, or widgets you've contributed to.
• Make your @handle available to other members of the Community.

1. Open the account menu in the top-left corner of the file browser and select Settings > Community.
2. Scroll down to the Profile section and click Delete public profile.