Stop Your Brand from Drifting Apart.
The manual handoff between design and development is where brand consistency dies. A dozen shades of "primary blue" creep into your apps, a font is missed, a padding value is rounded. Panora automates this critical workflow, making your design system the unbreakable, automated source of truth for your application's visual identity.
Panora answers your critical questions:
- "How do we guarantee that our web, iOS, and Android apps all use the exact same brand colors?"
- "How do we eliminate the dozens of hours developers spend manually copy-pasting hex codes?"
- "When we update our brand, how do we propagate that change across all apps instantly and safely?"
Key Business Values:
- Enforce 100% Brand Consistency
- By generating code directly from the design source (e.g., Figma), the tool ensures every button, header, and color in your applications perfectly matches the approved design system, eliminating visual "drift" between platforms.
- Drastically Accelerate UI Development
- Developers no longer need to inspect mockups. Tokens are available as native code variables, making UI construction faster, more intuitive, and less error-prone.
- Streamline Design Updates
- A change to a color in Figma is automatically reflected in the next CI/CD run, updating the CSS for your web app, the Swift Color assets for iOS, and the Kotlin Color objects for Android simultaneously.
Connect Your Design Tool Directly to the Codebase.
Panora is the workflow automation engine that bridges the gap between design and code. It empowers designers to own the brand's implementation and frees engineers from the tedious, error-prone work of manual translation. It creates a single source of truth, enforced by the pipeline.
The Automated Workflow:
- For the Designer: Define the System
- Structure your design files using your platform's best practices. The generator extracts named, reusable styles like Color Variables in Figma or Shared Styles in Sketch. Your naming convention (e.g., `color-brand-primary`) becomes the code's API.
- For the Engineer: Consume Native Code
- Stop using a color picker. The CI pipeline runs the tool, which connects to the design platform, extracts the tokens, and automatically commits native, framework-specific files to your repository (e.g., CSS Custom Properties, Swift `Color` extensions, or Kotlin `Color` objects).
- Extend, Don't Eject
- Need to add a custom gradient or complex style? The tool supports "safe areas" in the generated files. Add your custom code between special comments, and the tool will preserve it on every subsequent run.
An Automated, "Set-It-and-Forget-It" Synchronization Engine.
As an operator, you need tools that are secure, automatable, and efficient. Panora is a containerized, self-hosted utility designed to run on a frequent, recurring schedule, acting as an intelligent synchronization agent between your design platform and your code repositories.
Execution Modes:
execute: The primary CI mode. Connects to the design source, extracts tokens, generates platform-specific code, and commits the results back to the repository.serve-docs: The offline documentation mode. Serves the tool's full documentation in an air-gapped environment.
Intelligent Change Detection
The tool has its own change detection mechanism. On every run, it performs a deep comparison between the newly extracted tokens and the last known version. It only generates a new commit if an actual token value has changed, ignoring cosmetic saves or metadata updates in the design file.
Licensing & Degraded Mode
If a valid license cannot be acquired, Panora runs in a Degraded Mode. It will perform the full token extraction and in-memory generation but will not write any files to disk or commit to Git. Instead, it will log a JSON summary of the extracted tokens to the console.