Publish files to the Community
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.
You must be an approved creator to publish paid files to the Community. Learn more about selling resources on Community →
Which profiles you can publish to depends on your permissions within a team or organization. Learn who can publish resources
Community files are design files creators have shared with the Community. Create templates for wireframe, UI kits, asset libraries, and design 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 updates. Approved creators can publish files as paid and sell them directly from the Community. Learn more about selling resources on Community →
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.
Note: Licenses for published files vary depending on if the file is free or paid. Learn more about Figma Community copyright and licensing →
Content restrictions in published files
To ensure that the Community continues to be the best place to find Figma resources, we ask that you avoid the following when publishing files to the Community:
- Including links to purchase the file through a third-party payment site (such as Gumroad, PayPal, Lemon Squeezy), marketplaces (such as Creative Market, Canva, Etsy), or a checkout page on your personal website
- Including a call to action that prompts users to contact you to purchase the file outside Figma’s payment platform (such as email or message me to buy this file)
- Including links to spam websites
- Structuring it in a way that makes it appear to be useable content when it is just a static image
Files that contain this content will not be available on Community until the content is removed. Learn more about delisted paid resources →
About publishing paid files
If you’re an approved creator, you can publish your files as paid and sell them directly from the Community. Learn more about selling on Community →
When publishing a paid file, keep in mind:
- Users can preview a paid file’s contents before they purchase it:
- Figma Design files: Only the first page is accessible to users until they purchase the file
We strongly recommend that you structure your file in a way that uses the first page as a preview and includes the rest of the paid content on other pages. Any content included on the first page of a paid file will be accessible to all users.
- FigJam files: We will generate a preview of your file that will display on its Community page. Users can’t duplicate a paid FigJam file until they purchase it
- The creator who first publishes the file will be the designated payee. Once the designated payee is set, it cannot be changed.
- After a file has been published as paid, it cannot be converted to free at a later date.
- Paid files cannot be unpublished but can be delisted. Learn more about delisted paid resources →
- Paid files are reviewed by our content team before becoming available on Community.
Publish files
Caution: If you're in an organization, you won't be able to publish files from the organization to an individual profile. If the file is in the organization, we recommend you export it, re-import it to your personal account, 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.
Pricing (Paid files only)
If you are approved to sell on the Community and have activated your Stripe account, you can enable the Pricing toggle to configure a price for the file. Keep in mind:
- Files can be sold using one-time payments with a minimum price of $2.00.
- Prices are in USD and must be whole numbers.
- You may change the price at any time.
Note: The Pricing settings are disabled if you attempt to publish a paid file that is in a team or organization folder. Move the file to your drafts to enable the Pricing settings.
By publishing a paid file, you agree to the Creator Agreement.
Creators
Figma allows you to choose who is listed as a file's creators. 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, plugins, and widgets →
Publish settings
Choose whether fellow Figma Community members can comment on your files, plugins, and widgets. 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.
- Click Publish (free files) or Submit for review (paid files).
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.
- Click Publish to confirm.
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. Remixed files are files that a user has
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. If you do not want remixes to display on a Community file you’ve shared, click Hide section.
Note: Paid files cannot be remixed.
