Our team recently transitioned to Penpot (self hosted), but we’ve been encountering recurring issues. I’m hoping someone has experienced similar challenges and might have tips or solutions to share. Here’s what we’ve run into:
Random Shading: Penpot occasionally adds shading to elements on its own. Sometimes it’s impossible to remove, forcing us to rebuild or copy elements from elsewhere.
Font Issues: Uploaded fonts frequently disappear. Re-uploading doesn’t always fix it, and we often have to manually reselect the font for each text element. Sometimes it resolves itself after a while, but it’s inconsistent.
Blurry Elements: Certain elements appear blurry at times. Hovering over them sometimes clears it up, but not always.
Our team has just transitioned to self-hosted as well (running the latest as of today), and we are also seeing some weirdness happening with the fonts. We uploaded a custom font and the app keeps randomly “changing things” by way of dropping the font and reporting it as missing, only for it to come back again later. Other elements appear to be randomly “micro-glitching” every now and again adding to the weirdness. I am seeing this running local on OSX Sequioa 15.5 M3 128GB-RAM 40GB-GPU 8TB-HDD, with 64GB-RAM and 8-CPU cores allocated to the Docker instance, so every unlikely to be my machine. I will export the file and test on our AWS instance as well to compare.
We are trying to port a design over from XD, and have both apps open side by side, and this happenstance is infuriating.
