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Get the weekly emailDesign systems are products. This hub tracks token strategies, component API changes, accessibility guidance, and governance patterns from teams shipping at scale — including public-sector and enterprise references worth studying. Coach summarises primary sources (release posts, spec updates, conference talks) and flags what is established practice versus early adoption. Ideal for UI designers, design technologists, and anyone maintaining a library their engineers actually use.
The W3C's Design Tokens format is becoming the standard way colour, spacing and type values move between tools. If you use both Figma and Penpot, tokens are how your work stays portable.
designsystems.news
A walkthrough of Penpot's plugin system, template library and learning centre shows open-source tooling is building out real design-system support, not just basic shapes. Worth a look if you're on Figma + Penpot.
youtube.com
Token-based design systems have moved from nice-to-have to default practice for keeping design and dev in sync. This is settled, multi-year practice, not a new trend.
radical.design
Design Systems News coverage shows tokens (colour, spacing, type as structured data) have moved from edge-case practice to expected baseline for any real design system. If your system doesn't have tokens yet, that's the gap worth flagging.
designsystems.news
An open-source plugin exports Figma files into Penpot's format, carrying across most supported features. That's an early but genuine sign design tokens are becoming tool-portable, not tool-locked.
figma.com
Figma's Config 2025 event pushed Grid and layout tooling that echoes ideas Penpot's community has championed for years. The real trend is design systems converging around code-native layout and tokens.
community.penpot.app
