# Atomic Design System and Tokens

**URL:** <https://community.penpot.app/t/atomic-design-system-and-tokens/10144>\
**Category:** Ask the community\
**Tags:** tokens, design-tokens\
**Created:** [December 4, 2025, 11:34pm UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/atomic-design-system-and-tokens/10144 "2025-12-04T23:34:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![james.lawrie.tlc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/50afbb/32.png) [@james.lawrie.tlc](https://community.penpot.app/u/james.lawrie.tlc)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2025, 11:34pm UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/atomic-design-system-and-tokens/10144/1 "2025-12-04T23:34:39Z")

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I am wondering if I should switch from Figma to PenPot but I would like to clarify something first. I have tried this in Penpot already and failed.

So my question is this, building an atomic design system (foundation, atomic, molecule, organism, template, page) if I create the tokens inside the Foundations file and add the foundation file to a design project can I access the tokens inside the Foundation library file?

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**Author:** ![james.lawrie.tlc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/50afbb/32.png) [@james.lawrie.tlc](https://community.penpot.app/u/james.lawrie.tlc)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2025, 11:49pm UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/atomic-design-system-and-tokens/10144/2 "2025-12-04T23:49:38Z")

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![DS-tkn](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/uploads/penpot/original/2X/c/c77b21ddbff39077f61270d2afc36e6b197e99df.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![carolina.portugal](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.penpot.app/carolina.portugal/32/36_2.png) [@carolina.portugal](https://community.penpot.app/u/carolina.portugal)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 9:18am UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/atomic-design-system-and-tokens/10144/3 "2025-12-05T09:18:24Z")

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Hey, we are aware this is necessary, and we are working on it: [Taiga](https://tree.taiga.io/project/penpot/us/12015)

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**Author:** ![james.lawrie.tlc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/50afbb/32.png) [@james.lawrie.tlc](https://community.penpot.app/u/james.lawrie.tlc)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2026, 3:38am UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/atomic-design-system-and-tokens/10144/4 "2026-03-18T03:38:28Z")

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Has there been any progress with this?

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**Author:** ![james.lawrie.tlc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/50afbb/32.png) [@james.lawrie.tlc](https://community.penpot.app/u/james.lawrie.tlc)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2026, 3:48am UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/atomic-design-system-and-tokens/10144/5 "2026-06-24T03:48:08Z")

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@carolina.portugal Has there been any progress with this?

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**Author:** ![LauraKalbag](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.penpot.app/laurakalbag/32/5014_2.png) [@LauraKalbag](https://community.penpot.app/u/LauraKalbag)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2026, 9:50am UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/atomic-design-system-and-tokens/10144/6 "2026-07-21T09:50:20Z")

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@james.lawrie.tlc since the latest release, you can now import tokens from your linked libraries.

 ![Libraries modal showing the Import tokens icon button alongside a linked library file.](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/uploads/penpot/original/2X/f/feb4567ac5e3e04f6f2156904343e5b40ce45c60.png)