🎉 No Penpot Fest would be complete without a product showcase!

In this special Penpot Fest session, Pablo Ruiz Múzquiz, CEO at Penpot, and the team take us on a journey through the future of Penpot, sharing exciting sneak peeks and plans revealed for the very first time!

🔹 Elena Torró, Software Engineer at Penpot, explains why the team is building a new Render Engine, offering technical insights into how they’re approaching this ambitious project. She also reveals that the engine is just around the corner and announces an open beta, inviting the community to provide feedback and help shape its development.

🔹 Álvaro Tejero, AI Lead at Penpot, shares Penpot’s explorations on how design can be analyzed and explained to AI. In this high-level keynote, he introduces Penpot’s ideas on how machine learning and LLMs can assist designers and developers, unveiling the official Penpot MCP, now available on GitHub: https://github.com/penpot/penpot-mcp

🔹Clara García Viñola, Growth/Product Designer at Penpot, talks about Quality of Life improvements—updates focused on removing friction, simplifying workflows, and improving the user experience without adding complexity. She highlights how community feedback plays a central role in guiding these enhancements to ensure Penpot evolves in meaningful ways.

🔹 Andrés González, Product Owner at Penpot, shares how native Design Tokens and Variants are already making a tangible impact for teams working with complex Design Systems. He also outlines what upcoming releases will bring, including prototyping interactions with variants, composite Tokens, and token synchronization.

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3, 2, 1… Penpot Fest 2025 happened! 🎉

From fun and learning to exciting announcements, Penpot Fest 2025 in Madrid brought together a diverse community of designers, developers, and contributors. The event celebrated openness, shared language, quality over quantity, and collaboration as the key to achieving greater impact.

¡Viva Penpot Fest!

Penpot is the free open-source design tool for Design & Code collaboration.

Penpot is ideal for product design: UI designs, prototypes, wireframes, mockups, webs, apps, and much more.

Penpot allows a true collaboration and no handoff drama between designers and developers thanks to features like CSS Grid Layout, Flex Layout and Code Inspect.

Designers get a professional, intuitive, powerful design tool with ground-breaking responsive layouts, design systems at scale. While developers get a design tool that expresses as code and provides ready-to-use code to develop faster.

Penpot is the only one that can be web-based or self-hosted. The app works with open standards (SVG and CSS) avoiding vendor lock-in. Also, it enables teams the flexibility and control in their designs, thanks to the API and webhooks available.

Penpot Community: https://community.penpot.app

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Pablo Ruíz-Múzquiz, CEO of Penpot, took the stage at Penpot Fest 2025 to deliver the opening keynote, offering a quick wrap-up of what this year has brought for Penpot: a brand-new Plugins System, native Design Tokens, Variants, and a series of community events where the team showcased what real collaboration means for Penpot. He also shared key product metrics, outlined Penpot’s vision for AI, and explained the concept of the Open Nitrate Model.

Penpot is the free open-source design tool for Design & Code collaboration.

Penpot is ideal for product design: UI designs, prototypes, wireframes, mockups, webs, apps, and much more.

Penpot allows a true collaboration and no handoff drama between designers and developers thanks to features like CSS Grid Layout, Flex Layout and Code Inspect.

Designers get a professional, intuitive, powerful design tool with ground-breaking responsive layouts, design systems at scale. While developers get a design tool that expresses as code and provides ready-to-use code to develop faster.

Penpot is the only one that can be web-based or self-hosted. The app works with open standards (SVG and CSS) avoiding vendor lock-in. Also, it enables teams the flexibility and control in their designs, thanks to the API and webhooks available.

Penpot Community: https://community.penpot.app

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During Penpot Fest 2025, Elena Torró, Software Engineer at Penpot, explained why we are building a new Render Engine and offered technical tips into how we are approaching this ambitious project. She also revealed that the engine is just around the corner and announced an open beta, giving the community an opportunity to provide feedback and help shape its development.

Penpot Fest 2025 | Better, together: Refining the designer-developer workflow.

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Penpot is ideal for product design: UI designs, prototypes, wireframes, mockups, webs, apps, and much more.

Penpot allows a true collaboration and no handoff drama between designers and developers thanks to features like CSS Grid Layout, Flex Layout and Code Inspect.

Designers get a professional, intuitive, powerful design tool with ground-breaking responsive layouts, design systems at scale. While developers get a design tool that expresses as code and provides ready-to-use code to develop faster.

Penpot is the only one that can be web-based or self-hosted. The app works with open standards (SVG and CSS) avoiding vendor lock-in. Also, it enables teams the flexibility and control in their designs, thanks to the API and webhooks available.

Penpot Community: https://community.penpot.app

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In her Penpot Fest keynote, Clara García Viñola, Growth/Product Designer at Penpot, explained what Quality of Life improvements mean for Penpot. These changes focus on removing friction, simplifying workflows, and improving the user experience without adding extra complexity. She explained how community feedback plays a central role, as all improvements are guided by user requests to ensure Penpot evolves in ways that really matter.

Penpot is the free open-source design tool for Design & Code collaboration.

Penpot is ideal for product design: UI designs, prototypes, wireframes, mockups, webs, apps, and much more.

Penpot allows a true collaboration and no handoff drama between designers and developers thanks to features like CSS Grid Layout, Flex Layout and Code Inspect.

Designers get a professional, intuitive, powerful design tool with ground-breaking responsive layouts, design systems at scale. While developers get a design tool that expresses as code and provides ready-to-use code to develop faster.

Penpot is the only one that can be web-based or self-hosted. The app works with open standards (SVG and CSS) avoiding vendor lock-in. Also, it enables teams the flexibility and control in their designs, thanks to the API and webhooks available.

Penpot Community: https://community.penpot.app

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Penpot: Design as code.

Andrés González, Product Owner at Penpot, shared how native Design Tokens and Variants are already making a tangible impact for teams working with complex Design Systems. He also outlined what upcoming releases will bring, including prototyping interactions with variants, composite Tokens, and token synchronization.

Penpot is the free open-source design tool for Design & Code collaboration.

Penpot is ideal for product design: UI designs, prototypes, wireframes, mockups, webs, apps, and much more.

Penpot allows a true collaboration and no handoff drama between designers and developers thanks to features like CSS Grid Layout, Flex Layout and Code Inspect.

Designers get a professional, intuitive, powerful design tool with ground-breaking responsive layouts, design systems at scale. While developers get a design tool that expresses as code and provides ready-to-use code to develop faster.

Penpot is the only one that can be web-based or self-hosted. The app works with open standards (SVG and CSS) avoiding vendor lock-in. Also, it enables teams the flexibility and control in their designs, thanks to the API and webhooks available.

Penpot Community: https://community.penpot.app

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Penpot: Design as code.

Álvaro Tejero, AI Lead at Penpot, shared at Penpot Fest our explorations on how design can be analyzed and explained to AI. A high-level keynote where he points out Penpot's ideas on how machine learning and LLM's can help designers and developers, unfolding the official Penpot MCP, already available at https://github.com/penpot/penpot/tree/develop/mcp

Penpot is the free open-source design tool for Design & Code collaboration.

Penpot is ideal for product design: UI designs, prototypes, wireframes, mockups, webs, apps, and much more.

Penpot allows a true collaboration and no handoff drama between designers and developers thanks to features like CSS Grid Layout, Flex Layout and Code Inspect.

Designers get a professional, intuitive, powerful design tool with ground-breaking responsive layouts, design systems at scale. While developers get a design tool that expresses as code and provides ready-to-use code to develop faster.

Penpot is the only one that can be web-based or self-hosted. The app works with open standards (SVG and CSS) avoiding vendor lock-in. Also, it enables teams the flexibility and control in their designs, thanks to the API and webhooks available.

Penpot Community: https://community.penpot.app

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Penpot: Design as code.

Full line-up, agenda and session details are now live! Save your seat and join us to get a glimpse of Penpot's future, too. https://penpot.app/penpotfest

Penpot is the free open-source design tool for Design & Code collaboration.

Penpot is ideal for product design: UI designs, prototypes, wireframes, mockups, webs, apps, and much more.

Penpot allows a true collaboration and no handoff drama between designers and developers thanks to features like CSS Grid Layout, Flex Layout and Code Inspect.

Designers get a professional, intuitive, powerful design tool with ground-breaking responsive layouts, design systems at scale. While developers get a design tool that expresses as code and provides ready-to-use code to develop faster.

Penpot is the only one that can be web-based or self-hosted. The app works with open standards (SVG and CSS) avoiding vendor lock-in. Also, it enables teams the flexibility and control in their designs, thanks to the API and webhooks available.

Penpot Community: https://community.penpot.app

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Penpot Fest is back! 🎉 Join us in Madrid (Spain) from October 8-10th.

🎟️ Stay tuned for early bird tickets and more updates at https://penpot.app/penpotfest.

Penpot Fest is the friendliest event to bring design, code, and open source together. Get ready for inspiring talks on Design, Code, and Open Source, hands-on workshops, plenty of opportunities for networking, and of course_,_ delicious Spanish cuisine in beautiful Madrid (we’re big foodies at Penpot! 😋). At Penpot Fest, you’ll also have the chance to connect with the community in person and meet everyone who makes Penpot what it is: users, contributors, open-source enthusiasts, and the team.

2025 edition: Better, together: Refining the designer-developer workflow.

Grid Layout announcement and demo by Clara García, Product Designer at Penpot and Alonso Torres, Engineer at Penpot.

Penpot is the first open-source design and prototyping tool for Product teams.

Penpot allows a true collaboration between designers and developers thanks to features like Flex Layout and Code Inspect. It’s the only one that can be web based or self-hosted. The tool works with open web standards (SVG) avoiding vendor lock-in and giving teams absolute freedom in their designs.

You can use it for your mockups, webs, apps and any other type of UX & UI Design

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Penpot: Bring Design Freedom For Product Teams.