Publish Community files
Who can use this feature?
Supported on any team or plan.
Applies to both Figma design and FigJam files.
You must have can edit access to the file to publish the file to the Community.
Which profile(s) you can publish to depends on your permissions within a team or organization. Learn who can publish files and plugins →
Community files are design files creators have shared with the Community. Create templates for wireframe, UI kits, asset libraries, and designs systems. Or share educational resources, interactive tutorials, and tools to use across the design process.
Anyone with can edit access to the file can publish it. This includes when the file is originally published, as well as any subsequent publishes.
When you publish a file, Figma will add a snapshot of that file to the Community. Anyone who duplicates the file gets a new copy, without any updates, version history or comments from the original file.
You can continue to make changes to the file once it's published, then publish any updates to your Community file. Designers and other creators can duplicate the updated version to get access to those changes,
Copyright, licensing, and attribution
Any files you share in the Community will have an attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. This means other members are free to share and adapt these files, but they must give credit to the original creator. Learn more about copyright and licensing →
Remixes
Remixes are files in the Community that originated from another Community file. Other Community members can duplicate your files, make them their own, and share them again.
Figma tracks remixes to provide easier attribution and a joyful experience. If people remix your file, Figma will add an attribution to the remix's file page that links to the original Community file.
Figma will also add a Remixes section to your file's page. If there are more than three remixes for a file, Figma will add a dedicated remix tab to your file page. Click See All to view all remixes.
Publish files
Caution: If you're in an organization, you won't be able to publish files from the organization workspace to an individual profile. If the file is in the organization workspace, we recommend you export it, re-import it to your external workspace, then publish it from there.
You can publish both FigJam files and Figma design files. You can only publish files when you have them open in the Editor, not from the file browser.
Anyone with can edit access to the file can publish the file and any updates. This includes collaborators with edit access to the team or project.
- Click the Share button in the toolbar.
- Select the Publish to Community tab at the top of the modal.
- Click Publish to open the publishing modal.
Every file will have its own page in the Figma Community. This allows other members of the Community to browse, search, and find your file.
You'll need to provide some information about your file, which Figma will display on the file page:
File information
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Choose a name for your file. Users can search for your file using this name, or via relevant keywords (tags). You can give the file a different name than the original file.
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Write a description for your file. Use this space to give directions for how to use the file, or credit other contributors. You can format your description using some basic text formatting:
- Bold
- Italic
- Strikethrough
- Header 1
- Header 2
- Bulleted list
- Numbered list
- Add hyperlink
- Inline code
- Code block
- Add up to 12 keywords or tags to classify your file. Figma supports alphanumeric characters (a-z and 1-9), but no special characters or punctuation. Tags can be up to 25 characters.
Preview
Choose to preview your file as a file or a prototype. Members can still access the entire file, including any prototypes, when they duplicate it.
- Choose to Preview as:
- File: Members can view, pan, and zoom around your file. Members can preview other pages in your file using the page selector.
- Prototype: Members can click on hotspots to interact with the prototype, use the arrows to navigate between screens, or restart the prototype.
- Set the scale of the preview, choose from Fit, Fill, or 100%. Learn more about scale →
If you select file, Figma will use the file thumbnail as the preview for your file. The recommended dimensions are 1920 x 960, with a safe area of 1600 x 960. Use the Community frame preset → to create a frame of the correct size.
Creators
Figma allows you to choose who is listed as a file's creator(s). This is a great way to recognize other contributions to the file. To qualify as a creator they will need to meet both the following criteria:
- An explicit can view or can edit role on the original file
- An existing Community profile
When you add someone to a Community file as a creator, Figma will send them a notification which they can accept or decline.
Every contributor that accepts the request is listed as a creator on the file. Figma will also display that file on the Community profile of any creators. Use the Creator field to add any contributors.
If you're an admin of a team or organization, you will have two fields available for Creators. The first field allows you to select the team or organization profile you want to publish to.
The second field allows you to find and select individual contributors. Type a person's name or profile handle to search for their profile, and click to select.
To add an individual as a creator, they will need to have an explicit can view or can edit role on the file, as well as a Figma Community profile. Who can publish files and plugins →
Publish settings
Choose whether fellow Figma Community members can comment on your files and plugins. Comments in the Community are turned on by default, but you can turn off community comments at any time.
- Check or uncheck Allow comments from Community members.
- If commenting is on, you can click More options and check or uncheck Let people pin comments to specific spots in my design to allow pinned comments.
- Check the box to agree to the licensing terms and click Publish to confirm.
Figma will send everyone you listed as a creator a notification. This gives them the option to accept or decline the request. Every creator that accepts the request will be listed on the resource page.
Publish file updates
Anyone with edit access to the file can continue to make changes to the original file. They will need to publish those changes to the Community to see them reflected in the Community file.
Figma will treat this as a new version of the file and won't update any existing duplicates of the file. Community members will need to duplicate the updated version to access those changes.
Figma will maintain your file statistics likes and duplicates, across file versions.
Publish an update
Publish updates the same way you originally published the file. This includes changes to the file's details, like description, tags, and any creators.
- Open the file in the editor.
- Click the Share button in the toolbar.
- Select the Publish to Community tab at the top of the modal.
- Click Publish update to open the publishing modal.
- Add or update the title, description, tags, and publish as settings (optional).
- To remove a creator, click the next to their name. To add a creator, type a person's name or profile handle to search for their profile, and click to select.
- Check the box to agree to the licensing terms and click Publish to confirm.
