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Penpot for Developers: The Open-Source Design Tool That Speaks Your Language (opens in new tab)

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Most design tools treat developers as an afterthought. You get handed a file, you squint at a spec panel, and you manually translate someone else's pixels into code that drifts out of sync the moment the design changes. Penpot is an open-source design and prototyping platform where design is expressed as actual code — SVG, CSS, HTML, and JSON, the same web standards you already ship. No proprietary .fig lock-in, no "designer dialect" to interpret. It's MPL-2.0 licensed, written largely in Clo...

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