"Design tokens are all your design decisions, that define a design system's aesthetic properties, everything from colors and font sizes to spacing units and border radii. They are the modern evolution of hard-coded values. They are stored in a central, platform-agnostic repository, establishing a single source of truth for your entire digital product suite. This central management allows teams to consume the exact same design values across all platforms (web, native apps, documentation)."
"They are the modern evolution of hard-coded values. They are stored in a central, platform-agnostic repository, establishing a single source of truth for your entire digital product suite. This central management allows teams to consume the exact same design values across all platforms (web, native apps, documentation). Crucially, updating a token, e.g. changing the value of $color-brand-primary, instantly triggers that change to propagate consistently throughout the entire system. This not only guarantees brand consistency but dramatically reduces maintenance time and the risk of visual regression."
Aligning design tokens with the W3C standard ensures tokens work across the entire product spectrum and provides a clear setup path that follows the official specification. Design tokens capture aesthetic decisions such as colors, font sizes, spacing units, and border radii and replace hard-coded values. Tokens are stored in a central, platform-agnostic repository that acts as a single source of truth for web, native apps, and documentation. Centralized tokens let teams consume identical design values across platforms. Updating a token propagates instantly, enforcing brand consistency while reducing maintenance effort and risk of visual regression. Diverse formats create interoperability pain.
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