Enable libraries in drafts, teams, and files
Before you start
Who can use this feature
Anyone can enable libraries for files in their Drafts.
Only Team Admins can enable libraries for all team files.
Anyone with can edit access to a file can enable libraries for that file.
You can publish libraries to share styles and components across your files, projects, and teams. Learn more about libraries in Figma →
Choose which libraries you want to have available in your files by enabling default libraries. Enable a published library to:
- Access components from that library in the Assets panel of the left sidebar.
- Select styles from that library in the style picker for any relevant properties. This includes strokes, fills, text, layout grids, and effects.
- Access colors from any styles in the palette of the color picker, then apply them as regular fills.
Note: You need to publish styles and components to your library, before you can enable them as a default. library
Enable libraries
Enable libraries for your drafts, for all team files, or for a specific file. The general process for enabling and disabling libraries is the same for all locations, only the entry point is different.
I want to enable libraries in:
Tip! Organization Admins can enable libraries for across the entire Organization. Manage libraries for the Organization under Admin Settings > Resources. Learn how to choose default libraries in an Organization →
Drafts
Who can enable libraries in drafts
Anyone can enable libraries for files in their drafts.
You can only publish Styles in your drafts.
In an Organization, you can enable any library that's shared in the Organization. Outside of an Organization, you can only enable libraries from files in your Drafts.
Enable libraries in your drafts to turn on a library for all files in your drafts.
- It's not possible to publish components from your drafts. You can still publish styles and enable that library to access styles across your drafts.
- Enable style and component libraries from any teams of which you're a member.
- If you're in an Organization, Figma will enable any default organization-wide libraries. You can choose to enable any other libraries shared within the organization.
Manage which libraries are available in your drafts from your account settings:
- Open the Figma file browser.
- Click on your name to access your account and select Settings at the top of the page.
- Select Enable Libraries for all files in your Drafts.
- View a list of available libraries in the library modal. In your drafts, you can view and enable:
- Styles from published libraries in your drafts.
- Styles from published libraries in any Starter teams.
- Styles and components from published libraries in any Professional and Education teams.
- If you're in an Organization, you can access styles and components from libraries shared across the Organization.
- Click the library name to view the styles and components in that library.
- Use the toggles to enable or disable that library in the current file:
- Library enabled:
- Library disabled:
- Click to return to the canvas.
Teams
Who can enable libraties in teams
Supported on any team or plan.
You can publish styles and components in Professional or Education teams, or teams in an Organization. In free Starter teams you can only publish styles.
Only a Team Admin can enable libraries for the team.
Team Admins can choose which libraries are available by default in any team files.
- In free Starter teams, you can only publish styles. Enable a library in a Starter team to get access to styles in your team files.
- In Professional or Education teams, you can publish libraries with both styles and components.
- In a Figma Organization, you can publish libraries to a team or the entire organization.
Enable default libraries from the team's settings:
- Open the Figma file browser.
- Select the team in the sidebar and select Settings at the top of the page.
- Select Enable Libraries for all team files.
- View a list of available libraries in the library modal. Every library corresponds to a file with published styles and components.
- Click the library name to view the styles and components in that library.
- Use the toggles to enable or disable that library in the current file:
- Library enabled:
- Library disabled:
- Click to return to the canvas.
Files
Who can enable libraries in a specific file
Users on any team or plan.
Anyone with can edit access to a file can enable libraries for that file.
If you have can edit
access to a file, you can enable libraries in that file. This enables the library for everyone with can edit
access to the file.
Note: People will still need to have can view
access to the library to be able to use styles and components from that library.
Enable libraries in a file via the library modal:
- Open the Assets panel in the Editor.
- Click the Team Library icon.
- View a list of available libraries in the library modal. Every library corresponds to a file with published styles and components.
- Click the library name to view the styles and components in that library.
- Use the toggles to enable or disable that library in the current file:
- Library enabled:
- Library disabled:
- Click to return to the canvas.