Unpublish a Figma Community File or Remove Your Creator Attribution

Two different actions, one decision

If you want your name off a public Figma Community resource, the first question is what you actually want to change: your visible credit, the public listing, or both. Figma treats these as separate controls, so a single click will not usually do everything.

Figma distinguishes unpublishing a Design or FigJam Community file from removing yourself as a creator; removing a creator attribution does not remove the Community file. Source

That distinction matters because “remove my attribution” and “take the file down” produce different results. Removing your name does not retire the public resource, and retiring the listing is not the same as erasing your connection to work you made.

Decision table

Use this to pick the action that matches your goal. The rows are goals, not menus; confirm the current controls in your own Figma account before acting.

Two rows deserve emphasis. First, attribution removal and listing removal are separate. Second, unpublishing is not a recall: existing duplicates remain accessible.

Existing duplicates remain accessible after a file is unpublished. Paid files cannot be unpublished but can be delisted, and organization-profile unpublishing requires an organization admin. Source

Step path: remove attribution only

1. Confirm the file is a Figma Design or FigJam Community file. This path does not cover Figma Sites or Figma Make publishing.
2. Decide whether you want the public resource to stay up under someone else’s or no creator credit. If the file should disappear from public view, use the unpublish path instead.
3. Remove yourself as a creator using the current Community controls in your account.
4. Treat the result as an attribution change, not a takedown. The Community file is expected to remain.

If your real goal is to stop the public listing, step 3 is the wrong tool. Go to the next path.

Step path: unpublish a public listing

1. Confirm the file type is Figma Design or FigJam. Sites and Make publishing are out of scope here.
2. Check ownership. If the file sits under an organization profile, an organization admin needs to handle unpublishing.
3. If the file is paid, do not expect an unpublish option. Use delisting instead, which removes it from public view without unpublishing it.
4. Unpublish the file through the current Community controls.
5. Before telling anyone the resource is gone, check what still exists: existing duplicates remain accessible, so unpublishing does not retract copies already out there.

Failure paths to plan for

• You removed attribution but the listing is still public. That is expected. Attribution removal does not remove the Community file. If you wanted the listing gone, unpublish it.
• You tried to unpublish a paid file. Paid files cannot be unpublished. Delist the file instead, and be clear with anyone asking that delisting is not the same as unpublishing.
• You are not the organization admin. Organization-profile unpublishing requires an organization admin, so route the request to that person rather than attempting a workaround.
• You expected duplicates to disappear. They do not. Unpublishing leaves existing duplicates accessible. Plan your communication around that limit.
• You expected copyright or attribution rights to be erased. Unpublishing and attribution removal are platform controls, not a legal reset. They do not erase rights or undo credit that already exists elsewhere.

Public-listing verification checklist

After any change, verify the outcome instead of assuming it. This checklist is about what you can observe in Figma and in public view; it does not promise that every copy or reference elsewhere will change.

• I confirmed the file is a Figma Design or FigJam Community file, not a Sites or Make publication.
• I know which action I intended: attribution removal, unpublishing, or delisting.
• For a paid file, I used delisting and did not expect unpublishing.
• For an organization-profile file, an organization admin handled the unpublishing.
• I checked whether my creator attribution still appears after the change.
• I checked whether the Community listing is still publicly reachable after the change.
• I noted that existing duplicates remain accessible and did not describe the file as revoked.
• I did not tell anyone that copyright, credit, or attribution rights were erased.

What this does not cover

This worksheet covers Figma Design and FigJam Community files only. It does not cover Figma Sites or Figma Make publishing, and it does not establish current menu names, character rules, or account requirements beyond the reviewed claims above. Check the controls in your own account, because interface details can change.

It also does not resolve legal questions. Whether a credit must stay, whether a license survives unpublishing, or how a paid resource should be handled commercially depends on your agreements and jurisdiction. Nothing here is legal advice, and no universal deadline or payment-provider rule is implied.

A sensible next action

Write down your actual goal in one sentence before touching any control: “I want my name off the file,” “I want the listing gone,” or “I want the paid resource out of public view.” Then follow the matching path and run the checklist. If you also need to review how a known public username appears across other sites, a username lookup such as TraceSeek can help you follow that public handle, but it cannot change Figma settings, remove a listing, recover an account, or prove who a person really is.

If your next task is a broader review of what a public profile reveals before an interview, the guide on auditing your own digital footprint before a job interview is a relevant follow-up.