Create and publish custom slide deck templates

Before you Start

Who can use this feature

Available on the Organization and Enterprise plans

Organization members with can edit access to a slide deck can publish the slide deck as a template to a team or the entire organization

You can create and publish custom slide deck templates using your brand’s color palette, typography, and logos so that your entire organization can stay on-brand for every presentation.

Once you’ve created a custom template, you can publish it to your team or make it available to everyone at your organization.

You can identify slide deck templates by the template icon in the file browser. To make it easy to find and manage your custom templates, we recommend keeping them in one project. Learn more about projects →

Create a custom slide deck template

Custom slide deck templates consist of slide layouts, template colors, and text styles. You can create custom templates from scratch or by modifying slide layouts from existing templates.

Add slide layouts

Each slide you add to your template deck will be used as a slide layout option in the published template. We recommend including a variety of different slide layouts so your template can be used for any type of presentation.

Learn how to add new slides to a deck →

Manage template colors

Template colors can be applied to any object with a fill or stroke such as shapes, text layers, and slide backgrounds. Use template colors to keep the color palette of your slide deck consistent across all slides. When you update a template color, all objects using that color will be automatically updated. Template colors are also used when remixing template styles on a slide.

Learn more about remixing template styles →

You can manually create your template color palette or use styles and variables from Figma Design libraries you’ve added to your slide deck. Learn more about adding libraries to slide decks →

Add template colors

To add a template color:

1. Select an object with a fill.
2. Open the Fill dropdown menu in the right sidebar.
3. Click the plus next to Template colors.
4. Use the color picker to select a color or switch to the Library tab and choose a color style or variable from one of your connected libraries.
5. Click Save.

Edit template colors

When you edit a template color, all objects using that color will be automatically updated.

1. Open the Fill dropdown menu in the right sidebar.
2. Select the color you’d like to edit.
3. Click Edit style.
4. Use the color picker or select a style or variable from a connected library.
5. Click Save.

Delete template colors

When you delete a template color, objects using the template color will retain their fill but no longer be connected to a template color. Before deleting a template color, consider switching objects using that color to a different template color.

To delete a template color:

1. Select an object with a fill.
2. Open the Fill dropdown menu in the right sidebar.
3. Click the plus next to Template colors.
4. Click the X next to the color to delete it.

Manage text styles

Templates come pre-populated with text styles. You can create additional text styles, or update the existing ones. When you modify an existing text style, all text layers using that style will be automatically updated.

Create a new text style

To add a new text style:

1. Select a text layer.
2. Open the text style dropdown menu in the right sidebar.
3. Click the plus to add a new text style.
4. Enter a name for the text style.
5. If you want to create a new style based on the text layer you currently have selected, click Create style. Otherwise, click Show more options.
6. Customize the text style properties.
7. Click Create style.

Edit or delete text styles

To edit or delete a text style:

1. Select a text layer.
2. Open the text style dropdown menu in the right sidebar.
3. Click Edit text style next to the style you want to change.
4. Modify the text style’s properties or click Delete style.

Publish a custom template to your team or organization

Organization members with can edit access to the original slide deck template can publish templates to their team or organization. 

1. Open the template you want to share.
2. Click Share in the right sidebar to open the Share modal.
3. Click Publish template. If the slide deck is in your drafts, you’ll be prompted to move it to a project.
4. If your template has more than one template style, select which style you want to use for your template. Published templates can only have one template style. Learn more about template styles →
5. Enter a name, description, and optional custom thumbnail for your template.
6. Choose to publish the template to either your current team or your entire organization.
7. Click Publish.

Edit a published template

Organization members with can edit access to the original slide deck template can publish changes to the template.

1. Open the original slide deck template.
2. Make your changes to the template.
3. Click Publish changes on the banner at the top of the page.
4. Edit the template details, then click Publish updates.

Published changes only apply to new slide decks that are made with the template.

Unpublish a template

Organization members with can edit access to the original slide deck template can unpublish a custom template.

1. Open the original slide deck template.
2. Click on the dropdown menu next to the file name.
3. Hover over Manage template and select Unpublish template.
4. Click Unpublish to confirm.

The template will no longer appear in the template picker for your team or organization. Existing slides that use the template will not be impacted but new slides cannot be added from the template.

Disable custom templates

Organization admins can prevent members from publishing and using custom slide deck templates.

1. Open the file browser.
2. Select Admin in the sidebar.
3. Select the Settings tab.
4. Scroll down to the Other section, then turn off the Template publishing toggle.

Custom slide deck templates created in your organization will no longer be displayed in the template picker. If you decide to re-enable custom templates, previously created templates will be restored to the template picker.