Penpot

Open-source design tool

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What it is

Open-source design and prototyping tool under MPL 2.0 that stores work in open standards — SVG, CSS, HTML and JSON — rather than a proprietary binary. Ships native design tokens, an inspect tab that emits SVG and CSS, and deployment-agnostic self-hosting via Docker or Kubernetes.

Why it earns a slot

The only serious Figma alternative you can run on your own box, and its files are SVG underneath, so design work stays greppable and diffable instead of locked in a vendor format.

Know before you commit

Far smaller plugin and community-template ecosystem than Figma, and importing complex Figma files is imperfect — plan to rebuild rather than migrate.

Getting started

Self-host with the official Docker Compose file, then docker compose up -d

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Pricing snapshot

Free cloud tier (up to 8 members, 10 GB) · Unlimited $7/user/mo capped at $175/mo · self-host free

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Evaluate Penpot (https://penpot.app) for this project, then use it only if it fits what we are already building.
Context: Open-source design tool. Open-source design and prototyping tool under MPL 2.0 that stores work in open standards — SVG, CSS, HTML and JSON — rather than a proprietary binary. Ships native design tokens, an inspect tab that emits SVG and CSS, and deployment-agnostic self-hosting via Docker or Kubernetes.
Reviewer notes (general, not written for this codebase): The only serious Figma alternative you can run on your own box, and its files are SVG underneath, so design work stays greppable and diffable instead of locked in a vendor format.
Watch out for: Far smaller plugin and community-template ecosystem than Figma, and importing complex Figma files is imperfect — plan to rebuild rather than migrate.
Pricing: Free cloud tier (up to 8 members, 10 GB) · Unlimited $7/user/mo capped at $175/mo · self-host free
Setup: Self-host with the official Docker Compose file, then docker compose up -d
Rules: treat the notes above as background only. Do not assume a theme, style, layout or feature that is not already in this project — inspect the existing code first and ask me before changing visual direction.

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