Libraries may include components, colors and typographies. Learn how to create and manage them to better organize the pieces of your designs and speed your workflow.
Each file has its own file library which is where the assets that belong to this file are stored.
You have two ways to access the file library from the file workspace:
You can publish any regular file as a shared library. This means that the file library of this file will be available to be connected to other files that exist in the same team, so its library assets can be reused.
There are two ways to publish a library:
You can unpublish any library anytime the same way you can publish it, both from the file menu and the libraries panel.
Unpublishing a library will disconnect it from the files where it was connected. The assets that have already been used in other files will remain, but no longer linked with the now unpublished library.
To add a Shared Library from another file, launch the libraries panel, then search and select the available libraries. If you see the message "There are no Shared Libraries available", start by publishing other files as a shared library or add from our Libraries & templates.
You can disconnect any library anytime from the libraries panel just by clicking on the disconnect button.
Shared libraries will be listed at the assets panel, at the workspace left sidebar. You can expand and collapse them to access the assets of each connected shared library.
Click on the arrow icon at the right of a shared library name to go to the file where the library is and edit its contents.
If a shared library you have connected includes design tokens, you can copy them into the current file from the Libraries modal.
The Import tokens button appears only next to connected libraries that define tokens. Libraries without tokens do not show this control.
Importing tokens from a library replaces all tokens, sets and themes in the current file. Export your tokens first (from the Tokens tab → Tools → Export) if you need to keep a backup.
This is separate from connecting the library for components, colors and typographies. You can use shared assets without importing tokens, and import tokens only when you want the file's token setup to match the library.
