Penpot
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Penpot is the first open-source design tool for design and code collaboration. Designers can create stunning designs, interactive prototypes, design systems at scale, while developers enjoy ready-to-use code and make their workflow easy and fast. And all of this with no handoff drama.
Available on browser or self-hosted, Penpot works with open standards like SVG, CSS, HTML and JSON, and it’s free!
The latest updates take Penpot even further. It’s the first design tool to integrate native design tokens—a single source of truth to improve efficiency and collaboration between product design and development. With the huge 2.0 release, Penpot took the platform to a whole new level. This update introduces the ground-breaking CSS Grid Layout feature, a complete UI redesign, a new Components system, and much more. For organizations that need extra service for its teams, get in touch
🎇 Design, code, and Open Source meet at Penpot Fest! Be part of the 2025 edition in Madrid, Spain, on October 9-10.
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Why Penpot
Penpot expresses designs as code. Designers can do their best work and see it will be beautifully implemented by developers in a two-way collaboration.
Plugin system
Penpot plugins let you expand the platform's capabilities, give you the flexibility to integrate it with other apps, and design custom solutions.
Designed for developers
Penpot was built to serve both designers and developers and create a fluid design-code process. You have the choice to enjoy real-time collaboration or play "solo".
Inspect mode
Work with ready-to-use code and make your workflow easy and fast. The inspect tab gives instant access to SVG, CSS and HTML code.
Self host your own instance
Provide your team or organization with a completely owned collaborative design tool. Use Penpot's cloud service or deploy your own Penpot server.
Integrations
Penpot offers integration into the development toolchain, thanks to its support for webhooks and an API accessible through access tokens.
What’s great for design
With Penpot you can design libraries to share and reuse; turn design elements into components and tokens to allow reusability and scalability; and build realistic user flows and interactions.
Design Tokens
With Penpot’s standardized design tokens format, you can easily reuse and sync tokens across different platforms, workflows, and disciplines.
Getting started
Install with Elestio
Penpot is the only design & prototype platform that is deployment agnostic. You can use it or deploy it anywhere.
Learn how to install it with Elestio and Docker, or other options on our website.
Community
We love the Open Source software community. Contributing is our passion and if it’s yours too, participate and improve Penpot. All your designs, code and ideas are welcome!
If you need help or have any questions; if you’d like to share your experience using Penpot or get inspired; if you’d rather meet our community of developers and designers, join our Community!
You will find the following categories:
- Ask the Community
- Troubleshooting
- Help us Improve Penpot
- #MadeWithPenpot
- Events and Announcements
- Inside Penpot
- Penpot in your language
- Design and Code Essentials
Contributing
Any contribution will make a difference to improve Penpot. How can you get involved?
Choose your way:
- Create and share Libraries & Templates that will be helpful for the community
- Invite your team to join
- Give this repo a star and follow us on Social Media: Mastodon, Youtube, Instagram, Linkedin, Peertube, X and BlueSky
- Participate in the Community space by asking and answering questions; reacting to others’ articles; opening your own conversations and following along on decisions affecting the project.
- Report bugs with our easy guide for bugs hunting or GitHub issues
- Become a translator
- Give feedback: Email us
- Contribute to Penpot's code: Watch this video by Alejandro Alonso, CIO and developer at Penpot, where he gives us a hands-on demo of how to use Penpot’s repository and make changes in both front and back end
To find (almost) everything you need to know on how to contribute to Penpot, refer to the contributing guide.
Resources
You can ask and answer questions, have open-ended conversations, and follow along on decisions affecting the project.
✏️ Tutorials
🏘️ Architecture
License
This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
Copyright (c) KALEIDOS INC
Penpot is a Kaleidos’ open source project