Building a design token system | Scott Rouse

A very detailed and thorough overview of how to use design tokens to power a distributed design system and site architecture. The crux is ensuring design (Figma), code (CSS), and content management (in this case, Contentful) are all aligned.

Also includes some solid advice on why design tokens should be transformed into semantic tokens when they hit the codebase, which I fully agree with.

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