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Pencil: The Design Tool That Lives Right in Your IDE

Product Introduction

Ever felt like you're constantly switching hats—and apps—between designing and coding? Pencil eliminates that frustrating back-and-forth by bringing design tools right into your development environment. Image It's like having Figma's superpowers injected into VS Code, but with tighter version control and less context switching.

Key Features

Code-Friendly Design Canvas

  • Vector playground: The MCP canvas gives you full control to manipulate designs programmatically
  • Git integration: Version your UI components alongside their implementation code
  • Figma fluency: Copy-paste designs directly without losing fidelity

Developer-Centric Workflow

  • Precision tools: Pixel-perfect adjustments without leaving your IDE
  • Brand kits: Drag-and-drop your design system components
  • API ready: Connect designs to live data sources

Team Collaboration Boosters

  • Single source of truth: Designs live in your codebase
  • Merge conflict resolution: Handle UI changes like code changes
  • Plugin ecosystem: Extend functionality as your stack evolves

Product Data

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