Explore the new major features of Penpot
Learn more
Penpot
Penpot, design freedom for teams

Seamless Design Systems for scaling UI

Boost your UI and UX design processes with even more consistency, efficiency, and collaboration. Penpot has reimagined how designers and developers manage scalable UI by becoming a powerful platform for design systems.

Why choose Penpot for your design system?

Design and Code

Create beautiful user interfaces in collaboration with all team members. Keep consistency at scale with components, libraries and design systems.

Components

Speed your workflow with the reusable power of components.

Flex-Layout

Build flexible interfaces following CSS standards.

Fonts management

Use fonts that you own on your teams.

Fonts management

Use fonts that you own on your teams.

Fonts management

Use fonts that you own on your teams.
Design from the web and for the web
Code
Design

Scalable designs

Keep your designs consistent while scaling them across your organization. Penpot helps designers, developers, and other stakeholders collaborate seamlessly, even on the most complex projects.
Design from the web and for the web
Interactive prototyping

Components

Create rich interactions to mimic the product behavior. Share them to stakeholders, present proposals to your team and start user testing with your designs, all in one place.

Interactions

Set triggers and define actions to add interactions to your designs.

Transitions

Add beautiful transitions like fade, pull, push and animations to your interactions.

Flows

Set multiple starting points to match your product customer journeys.
Design from the web and for the web
Code
Code

Reusable components

Build your next project faster by breaking everything down into reusable components and tokens. From a simple pattern to a complex layout, designers and developers can create something unique with less time and effort.

Templates & Libraries

It's teamwork that makes design whole. Penpot provides features that allow designers, developers and stakeholders to collaborate sharing the same space.

Components

Speed your workflow with the reusable power of components.

Flex-Layout

Build flexible interfaces following CSS standards.

Fonts management

Use fonts that you own on your teams.

Fonts management

Use fonts that you own on your teams.

Fonts management

Use fonts that you own on your teams.
Next level collaboration
Code
Design

Team collaboration

Eliminate the dreaded back-and-forth of the traditional design process. Penpot’s inspect tab with code output, real-time editing and comments ensure everyone is caught up and communicating effectively.
Design from the web and for the web

What designers say about Penpot

Exciting time for the open source community. Congratulations! Love what you've done with components and layouts.
Emmanuel Akujobi
@emmaAkujobi
The project is full of promise and offers an outstanding alternative to other similar tools. The close parallels/aligment between design and code are gratifying about the work and the resulting desings. This project has the potential to revolutionize the way we approach design.
Anton P.
@anton.p
Wall of love

Create and manage design systems with Penpot

Design from the web and for the web

Design Systems that scale

Build and store UI components and patterns

Skip the added step of creating in one app and storing in another. Penpot is a professional tool that helps you create all of your reusable elements right within the design system, including buttons, menus, paddings, and more.
More on design systems with Penpot

Design from the web and for the web

Harness the power of design tokens

Penpot will soon introduce Design Tokens, enhancing the experience for developers as well as designers.
Watch Desgin Tokens plans

Design from the web and for the web

Create a visual design language

Penpot lets you establish and implement your visual design language, including color palette, typography, iconography, and spacing. With a consistent approach to everything you create, you can ensure aesthetically pleasing products that your end user will recognize.

Design from the web and for the web

Share libraries

Make everything you create available to any team member at any time. With Share Libraries, any colors, typographies, and components can be easily found and used to create brand-specific designs.
Libraries & templates

Design from the web and for the web

Design from the web and for the web

Examples of design systems created with Penpot
You don’t have to start at zero. Get inspiration (and a jump-start) with these free design system templates.

FAQs

What is a design system?

A design system is a library of standards, guidelines, and components for product creation to ensure consistency throughout design and development. Items included in a design system may include:

What are the benefits of a design system?

A design system offers several advantages over traditional UI design documentation methods. These include:

What are the differences between design systems and traditional UI design?

Traditional UI design is concerned with the visual design elements of specific product pieces, like a mobile app home screen or a website. It includes single-use elements that are created specifically for a project. A design system, on the other hand, encompasses the framework, guiding principles, documentation, and reusable UI design components for all of the products created by an organization. It ensures consistency in design and development between teams.