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* 📚 Add comprehensive documentation for .penpot file format (v3) Create user-facing documentation for the .penpot binfile format to help developers and power users understand and inspect the ZIP+JSON structure. - Add technical specification with complete schema reference for all JSON files (manifest, file metadata, pages, shapes, library assets, storage objects, plugin data) - Add user-friendly overview explaining the format structure, inspection methods, and version history - Update export-import-files.njk to clarify current format is not deprecated and note that v2 was never released - Add cross-links between documentation pages - Include source code references to authoritative malli schemas AI-assisted-by: qwen3.7-plus * 📎 Add playwright dependency to the root package.json * 📚 Add browser based .penpot file inspector to docs Add a client-side, no-build inspector for .penpot (v3) files. The tool runs entirely in the browser: JSZip is loaded lazily from a CDN, the file is never uploaded. It provides a collapsible file tree, syntax- highlighted JSON viewer with search, image previews, a summary panel with file/shape/storage counts, shape summary cards with color swatches, and clickable UUID cross-references with backlinks. The inspector is added at docs/technical-guide/developer/data-model/penpot-file-inspector.njk and linked from the format spec and the user-facing format page. AI-assisted-by: minimax-m3 * 📚 Use full page width and 2-column layout for inspector The inspector previously sat inside the docs site's 42rem content column, which forced a stacked layout and wasted the wide viewport. - Hide the docs page-navigation sidebar on this page via :has() - Use a 2-column CSS grid: file tree (280px, sticky) on the left, content (flex: 1) on the right - Restore the directory tree as a permanent left-rail navigation (it was removed when the picker was first introduced, then added back as a collapsible panel; a sticky rail is a better fit now that horizontal space is plentiful) - Remove the tree toggle button — the tree is always visible - Collapses to 1 column on viewports below 900px AI-assisted-by: minimax-m3 * 💄 Indent nested JSON values in inspector The JSON tree view in the inspector was rendering all properties at the same indent level, making it hard to see which values were nested inside objects or arrays. Root-level properties and deeply nested ones looked identical. Add padding-left and a subtle vertical guide line to .jchildren so each nesting level is visually distinct. Bump the toggle column to 1.2em and add a touch of vertical padding to .jrow for breathing room. AI-assisted-by: minimax-m3
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Penpot is the open-source design platform for teams that build digital products at scale.
Penpot’s key strength lies in giving you full ownership of your design infrastructure. Built on open source and designed for self-hosting, it puts teams in complete control of their design environment supporting strict compliance and governance requirements. Whether used in the browser or deployed on your own servers, Penpot works with open standards like SVG, CSS, HTML, and JSON.
Real-time collaboration strengthens this foundation, helping teams scale and bring design closer to the product through top-tier capabilities. Additionally, developers feel at home using Penpot, because design is expressed as code, enabling a direct translation and shipping products faster.
Best-in-class native Design Tokens provide a single source of truth between design and development. They ensure consistency, improve collaboration, and make it easier to manage complex design systems.
The MCP server takes it further by enabling multi-directional workflows between design and code. A powerful open API and plugin system makes the workspace programmable, enabling automation, AI-driven workflows, and integrations with the tools and systems you already use.
With CSS Grid and Flex Layout, teams can design responsive interfaces that behave like real code from the start.
Combined, these features turn Penpot into a full-stack design platform for building scalable design systems and fully integrated product development processes.
If your organization is scaling and needs extra support, we’re here to help. Talk to us
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Why Penpot
Penpot connects design, code, and AI workflows through a code-based approach, making designs readable by developers and AI via the MCP server. This approach helps teams ship what’s actually designed and manage design systems at scale with powerful design tokens. As a self-hosted, open-source and real-time collaboration platform, Penpot offers full flexibility, security, and ownership without vendor lock-in. Learn more about why Penpot is the platform for your team.
Plugin system
Penpot plugins let you expand the platform's capabilities, give you the flexibility to integrate it with other apps, and design custom solutions.
Designed for developers
Penpot was built to serve both designers and developers and create a fluid design-code process. You have the choice to enjoy real-time collaboration or play "solo".
Inspect mode
Work with ready-to-use code and make your workflow easy and fast. The inspect tab gives instant access to SVG, CSS and HTML code.
Integrations
Penpot offers integration into the development toolchain, thanks to its support for webhooks and an API accessible through access tokens.
Building Design Systems: design tokens, components and variants
Penpot brings design systems to code-minded teams: a single source of truth with native Design Tokens, Components, and Variants for scalable, reusable, and consistent UI across projects and platforms.
Getting started
Penpot is the only design & prototype platform that is deployment agnostic. You can use it in our SAAS or deploy it anywhere.
Learn how to install it with Docker, Kubernetes, Elestio or other options on our website.
Community
We love the Open Source software community. Contributing is our passion and if it’s yours too, participate and improve Penpot. All your designs, code and ideas are welcome!
Want to go a step further? Become a Penpot Ambassador and help grow the Penpot community in your region while contributing to a global, open design ecosystem.
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Anyone who contributes to Penpot, whether through code, in the community, or at an event, must adhere to the code of conduct and foster a positive and safe environment.
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- Contribute to Penpot's code: Watch this video by Alejandro Alonso, CIO and developer at Penpot, where he gives us a hands-on demo of how to use Penpot’s repository and make changes in both front and back end.
To find (almost) everything you need to know on how to contribute to Penpot, refer to the contributing guide.
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