How Penpot Reduces Design Tokens Fragmentation

Penpot's native Design Tokens feature enhances team collaboration through standardized tokens management.

Have you ever needed to modify a primary color or spacing across dozens of files during project development? Or discovered mismatches between your design system and final implementation because designers and developers interpreted design tokens differently?

Managing design tokens — the fundamental elements that define a digital product's visual identity — has always been challenging.

For multidisciplinary teams, synchronizing these values between design tools and development environments can become especially problematic.

The Path to Fragmentation

Traditionally, the design token workflow follows this cumbersome path:

1. Designers define tokens in their preferred tool

2. They export values in proprietary formats

3. Developers convert these values into code variables

4. The process repeats with each update

This fragmented approach slows down workflow and creates incon…