Design Tokens Technical Reports 2025.10

Draft Community Group Report

Latest published version:
https://www.designtokens.org/TR/2025.10/
Editors:
Louis Chenais
Kathleen McMahon
Drew Powers
Matthew Ström-Awn
Donna Vitan
Mike Kamminga
Authors:
Daniel Banks
Kevin Powell
Andrew L’Homme
Ayesha Mazrana (Mazumdar)
James Nash
Adekunle Oduye
Esther Cheran
Feedback:
GitHub design-tokens/community-group (pull requests, new issue, open issues)

Abstract

Design tokens are indivisible pieces of a design system such as colors, spacing, typography scale.

Design tokens were created by the Salesforce design system team, and the name comes from them (Jon & Jina).

Status of This Document

This specification was published by the Design Tokens Community Group. It is not a W3C Standard nor is it on the W3C Standards Track. Please note that under the W3C Community Contributor License Agreement (CLA) there is a limited opt-out and other conditions apply. Learn more about W3C Community and Business Groups.

This is a snapshot of the editors' draft. It is provided for discussion only and may change at any moment. Its publication here does not imply endorsement of its contents by W3C or the Design Tokens Community Group Membership. Don't cite this document other than as work in progress.

This document has been published to facilitate Wide Review.

This document was produced by the Design Tokens Community Group, and contributions to this draft are governed by Community Contributor License Agreement (CLA), as specified by the W3C Community Group Process.

GitHub Issues are preferred for discussion of this specification.

1. Modules

The Design Tokens specification is composed of multiple modules:

2. Resources

A. Acknowledgements

We'd also like to thank the following contributors: Abhishek Warokar, Adam Stankiewicz, Adekunle Oduye, Ale Muñoz, Asher, Benjamin Kindle, Bjørn Madsen, Chase McCoy, Copilot, Dale Sande, Daniel Flynn, Daniel Rinehart, Danny Banks, Dominique Hazael-Massieux, Evan Lovely, Fabian Friedl, Guilherme Nagüeva, Guy Lepage, Ivan Maksimovic, James Nash, Jan Toman, Jina Anne, Jon Levine, Joren Broekema, Kaelig Deloumeau-Prigent, Kevin Powell, Kilian Valkhof, KLS, Laurent Thiebault, Lukas Oppermann, Marcos Castro, Mark Tomlinson, Matt Felten, Matt Ström-Awn, Mike Kamminga, Miriam Suzanne, Namık Özgür Aydın, nicolaibach, Pavel Laptev, Pavel Vostrikov, Red Huang, Rob Eisenberg, Robin, Roman Komarov, Salem Cobalt, Sébastien Barbieri, Sigurd Fosseng, Stuart Robson, Vsevolod Dolgopolov (aka Seva), and Zhihao Cui.