Drops

A drop is a small, shareable piece of design that stands on its own. Where a project is the whole thing, a drop is one selection you want to send around: a button, a card, an icon set, a hero section.

If projects are repositories, drops are gists. Same energy, smaller unit.

Publishing a drop

Select the elements you want to share, then run the Publish drop command (or right-click the selection and choose it). Add a title, subtitle, and a few tags if you like; all of them are optional. Confirm, and the drop is published and its link is on your clipboard, ready to paste.

You need to be signed in to publish a drop. If you are not, Brilliant prompts you to sign in first.

Every drop lives at a clean URL, under the handle that published it:

brilliant.design/{handle}/drops/{slug}

Older brilliant.design/drops/{handle}/{slug} links still work: they redirect to the new address, so anything already shared keeps landing.

Public by default

Like projects, drops are public by default, and public is free. A private drop is a paid feature. Drops do not expire.

The one hard limit is size: a drop can be up to 5 MB. Titles, subtitles, and tags have generous length caps, so the practical ceiling is the design itself.

Browsing and starring

Public drops surface in two places, and both are the same wall of tiles. Explore is the merged feed: projects and drops together, newest first. The drops feed is that same wall, filtered to drops only. On either one you can sort by Recent (the default), Popular, or New, and filter by tag.

Drop tiles are sized to the drop itself: each tile's preview takes the shape of the design inside it, so a wide banner and a tall card sit in the wall at their true proportions instead of being cropped to one fixed box.

On any drop you can:

Star it, GitHub-style, to bookmark it publicly. Your stars show up on your profile.
Fork it, to make your own copy to build on.

Right-click any tile (or use the … button that appears on it) for those actions in one menu: Copy blueprint (the drop's design as Blueprint text, ready to paste into your own work), Copy link, Open, Open in new tab, Star, and Fork. If the drop is yours, the menu also carries a visibility toggle to Make private or Make public.

Importing a drop onto your canvas

Found a drop you want to use? Run the Import drop from link command and paste the drop's URL. Its contents land on your current canvas as real, editable elements, ready to adapt.

A drop's tabs

Open a drop and it carries a small tab strip: Drop Overview, History, and, if the drop is yours, Settings.

Drop Overview is the drop itself, the page you land on.
History is empty for now.
Settings is where you, as the owner, change the drop's name, description, and tags, decide who can see it, and delete it. It is the only door in: there is no separate "edit" button, on the tile or on the drop's page.

Changing the name also moves the drop's address, so Settings asks you to confirm that one: links to the old address keep redirecting until you reuse it.

Re-publishing a drop's design is not available yet: to share a new version of the design itself, publish a new drop.

A drop's Sharing settings are where you decide who can see it:

Visibility. Drops are public by default. Private drops are part of the Pro plan.
People. Invite anyone by email. They get view access: they can open the drop and comment, but never edit it.
Share links. For a private drop, mint a short link that lets anyone open it without signing in. Links are view-only, you can see how many times each was opened, and you can revoke any one of them on its own. A public drop does not need one, since its address already works for everybody.

How drop access compares to a project's: Collaborate live.
The handle in every drop URL: Handles and profiles.
When private drops make sense: Plans and billing.