Support for variable fonts

[LauraKalbag]

Check out @myfunnyandy’s latest post on the Penpot (not a) Roadmap

@myfunnyandy

Track 1: Design Experience and Reliability

Goal: Make Penpot feel faster, more stable, and more trustworthy for daily work, especially on complex files.

Planned

• New render engine (WASM/WebGL renderer) → In progress
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• Stability and reliability improvements → In progress
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• Design deal-breakers → In progress
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• Component overrides and refactor
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Candidates

• Variable fonts
  Add support for variable font axes and controls.
  Taiga: Taiga #3686

Not a roadmap, but… what's coming in Penpot (June 2026)

[Cover for "Roadmap (Updated in June 2026)"] What’s next for Penpot? If you read our 2025 “not a roadmap”, you already know the deal: this is not a promise list. It is an open window into what we are working on now, what is coming up, and why. A lot has happened since that post. We shipped native design tokens and variants. We worked through a long list of design deal-breakers (the small and medium fixes that make daily work less painful). Tokens sync with external tools is still in progress.…