"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 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 with the W3C design token standard enables tokens to work across the entire product spectrum. Design tokens encode aesthetic decisions—colors, font sizes, spacing, border radii—and replace hard-coded values. Tokens live in a central, platform-agnostic repository that serves as a single source of truth for web, native apps, and documentation. Central management lets teams consume identical design values across platforms. Updating a token, such as $color-brand-primary, propagates the change system-wide, ensuring brand consistency and reducing maintenance effort and visual regression risk. Standardized tokens reduce fragmentation from diverse formats and simplify cross-platform implementation.
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