Penpot

Open source · OSI-approvedStatus: unknown

Design and prototyping built on open web standards

Penpot stores designs as SVG and uses CSS layout primitives - flex and grid - as its layout model, so what a designer builds maps onto what a developer implements rather than needing translation.

It is the only serious design tool that can be self-hosted, which makes it viable for organisations where design files count as controlled material.

Decisive facts

SVG native files with flex and grid layout
Components, variants, and shared design tokens
Prototyping with interactions and transitions
Inspect mode producing usable CSS
Fully self-hostable with Docker

Design & Whiteboarding clojure self-hosted design svg prototyping

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