🟣 TOOOLS #31: Pen.dev, Design Details, Offgrid, Identik, Fontsight

   TOOOL OF THE WEEK

Pen.dev

Formerly Pencil, now an AI design canvas for building bold ideas. Design with agents on the canvas, bring any model you prefer, then refine the details by hand with components, variables, flex layout and a pen tool that answer to the same shortcuts as Figma. Websites and Figma files import as editable layers, and the result exports as images or ready-to-ship pages.

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   UPDATES & NEWS

Anthropic previews Claude Duet, an app that briefs you each morning and keeps working on tasks while you step away

Ideogram's first vector model turns a prompt or an image into editable SVG logos and illustrations

Spline now runs inside ChatGPT, building editable 3D scenes right in the conversation

Dylan Field says MCP still favors the big AI labs, even as Figma adds 20 new MCP partners

Cursor agents can now click through desktop apps and test the screens they build in the iOS Simulator

Webflow shows where an AI agent is working on the canvas in real time, like a teammate's cursor

Figma adds iPhone Duo and iPhone 18 frame presets, from the canvas to prototype settings

   ONE MORE THING ...

GOODBYE TO A DESIGNER FAVORITE

The browser that made the sidebar cool shuts down on December 22.

The Browser Company posted its farewell to Arc on October 22. In two months the app stops working. The official path leads to Dia, the same team’s AI-first browser. My pick, though, is Zen for now: I tested it and feel it’s the best replacement for a calm browsing experience, with the features Arc was loved for: the sidebar, workspaces and split view.