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How to use tokens in design systems?
- Design tokens store specific styles or settings you can reuse within a design system.
- Design tokens can be organized and well documented, facilitating visual consistency.
- They encourage reasoning, maintainability, and reusability of design systems, leading to quicker production times and easier scalability.
- Design variables (tokens) are handed off to developers so they can leverage the same benefits as designers.
- Design tokens are stored in a transferable, platform-agnostic format, allowing them to be easily imported into any number of platforms.
- Design tokens can be used to store values such as colors, spacings, typographic properties, and settings. They fit into four design variable categories in Figma.
- To create a design token, you simply need to click on the Open variables icon, then create a variable and assign a value.
- It's important to establish a naming convention and to document your design variables/tokens.
- Using plugins like Style Dictionary and Tokens Studio can improve collaboration between designers and developers with Figma design tokens.
- Design tokens facilitate consistency, maintenance, and synchronization of multi-platforms, making them an excellent tool for designers and developers to use in design systems.
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