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Design tokens

The designs tokens are the atoms of visual design, basically define color, typography, spaces, borders, corners, shadows... of a design, in the form of entity with a specific nomenclature. These entities are absorbed through the Figma API by development and converted into styles usable by all technologies from CSS SASS IOs Android...

Benefits

Increases consistency between design and development. It speeds up changes and allows the development to be updated as the design evolves. Allows you to create multi-brand themes or hot-switch between a light and dark theme. It orders and standardizes all the styles of the design system.

Anatomy

The token name will always start with the symbol "$" followed by the "category". Subsequently the necessary elements will appear in the order shown in the "Structure" and always separated by "-": "$color-bg-interactive-pressed-soft".

Design Tokens Structure Schema

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