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A practical guide to the design tokens JSON format

Learn about the design tokens JSON file format and how Penpot works with it.

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Cloud repatriation: 5 reasons why enterprises are self-hosting their design tools

Why are design platforms overlooked in cloud repatriation plans? Discover 5 reasons enterprises self-host design tools for security, compliance, and cost control.

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How to deploy Penpot with Docker: A Technical, Step-by-Step Guide

Step-by-step guide to deploying Penpot with Docker. Covers installation, configuration, version management, backups, HTTPS setup, and authentication for self-hosted instances.

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6 benefits of design tokens for enterprise teams

Design tokens eliminate inconsistency and speed up designer-developer collaboration. Explore 6 benefits that make them essential for enterprise design systems.

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Penpot vs. Figma: Which design platform is right for enterprise teams?

Compare Penpot and Figma on the criteria enterprise teams care about most: data sovereignty, pricing predictability, developer integration, and long-term scalability.

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6 best Adobe XD alternatives

In this guide, we’ll explore six of the best Adobe XD alternatives, following its sunset in June 2023, highlighting their features, pros and cons, and which tools may serve as the best long-term replacement for your team.

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How Penpot makes design and developer collaboration seamless

Penpot bridges the design-development gap by eliminating the translation layer that creates friction in traditional workflows.

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Tutorial: Creating and using shadow tokens

Using shadows carefully and consistently in your UI design can make it feel polished. Shadow design tokens help you implement the consistency and quickly update your shadows across your design system.

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Brand consistency: How enterprises maintain and build their brands

Brand consistency is the disciplined, repeatable presentation of one identity-visual, verbal, and experiential-whenever and wherever audiences encounter you

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6 reasons enterprise companies choose to self-host Penpot

Penpot gives enterprise teams something most SaaS design tools simply cannot offer: full control over a design platform, without sacrificing collaboration, performance, or product velocity. But how?

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Using design tokens for a proportional typographic scale

A proportional typographic scale is a hierarchy for font sizes that uses a consistent mathematical ratio. Design tokens are ideal for creating these scales.

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Tutorial: Creating and applying typography design tokens

Typography design tokens are a way to save your text styles for reuse across your projects. The typography composite token combines multiple typography-related properties in one mega token.

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