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.
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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.
Penpot
Penpot's new rendering system
One of the hardest challenges in building a design tool like Penpot is rendering performance. As designs grow in complexity, ensuring smooth performance becomes increasingly difficult.
Code
CSS Grid vs. Flexbox: Choosing the right layout for you
Understanding what is Grid vs. Flexbox and how to use them can help you build cleaner layouts, write less code, and avoid frustrating design issues down the line.
Beginners
What is Interaction Design? A Guide for UX Designers
In this article, we'll break down what makes interaction design different from other types of design, go over its key ideas, and share the tools and steps designers use to create great digital interactions.
Code
Understanding the z-index: A beginner’s CSS guide
What's z-index? Learn how to manipulate the z-index, why it matters, and how Penpot makes it easier to manage stacking without touching a line of CSS.
Beginners
Mastering the iterative design process: A complete guide
What does it take to make the next big idea come to life in a tangible way that truly helps people? The iterative design approach can be used for any field, but it’s most notable in software development and user interface design.
Design
Tutorial: Creating and using component variants in Penpot
Component variants are a way to create different variations of a component. Does your component need different sizes? Colors? Levels of elevation? Variants make it easy to define these properties, and choose between them when you’re using a component in your designs.
Design
Tutorial: 5 examples of component variants
Variants add an extra level of flexibility to your components, as well as providing better documentation and making designs even more developer-friendly.