Design
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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Tools
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?
Tutorial
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.
Tutorial
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.
Design
Web design color theory: How to build brands and improve UX with color
Colors bring a webpage to life, and some of our most engaging digital experiences wouldn’t work without a good use of color theory. What different colors go together? Are the basics of color theory enough?
Open Source
How to self-host Penpot: A technical implementation guide
Once you've decided to bring Penpot into your own infrastructure, the next step is making sure your instance runs smoothly, stays secure, and scales with your team. Learn how to self-host Penpot in your infrastructure.
Beginners
7 Penpot prototyping features to bring your next project to life
Prototypes are essential in any major build, but their role has evolved. Today they go beyond visual mockups, helping teams catch issues early, test connections, validate assumptions with real data, and keep designers, developers, and stakeholders aligned.
Tutorial
Penpot deep dive: Color tokens vs asset colors
Color design tokens and asset colors are both ways you can store colors in Penpot for reuse. There are some key differences that might affect which you choose to use in your project.
Design
Design tokens for designers: A practical guide
Design tokens bring together design and development teams with a single, unified language for expressing color, fonts, sizing, and more.
Open Source
4 reasons why enterprises benefit from open-source design platforms
Whether it’s scaling across hundreds of designers or self-hosting and customizing an instance to meet strict requirements, open-source software gives enterprises the control they need to succeed - and one of the biggest advantages is flexibility.
Code
The developer’s guide to design tokens and CSS variables
Design tokens are a platform-agnostic representation of your design decisions, while CSS variables provide a way to implement these decisions in the browser.
Design
How to use component variants to scale your design system
This article explores how you can use component variants to simplify, scale, and future-proof your design system, helping you design more efficiently as your projects grow.