Design Tokens Technical Reports 2025.10

Final Community Group Report

This version:
https://www.w3.org/community/reports/design-tokens/2025.10/
Latest published version:
https://www.designtokens.org/TR/2025.10/
Editors:
Louis Chenais
Mike Kamminga
Kathleen McMahon
Drew Powers
Matthew Ström-Awn
Donna Vitan
Authors:
Daniel Banks
Esther Cheran
Andrew L’Homme
Ayesha Mazrana (Mazumdar)
James Nash
Adekunle Oduye
Kevin Powell
Lilith Wittmann
Feedback:
GitHub design-tokens/community-group (pull requests, new issue, open issues)

Copyright © 2025 the Contributors to the Design Tokens Resolver Module 2025.10 Specification, published by the Design Tokens Community Group under the W3C Community Final Specification Agreement (FSA). A human-readable summary is available.

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 Final Specification Agreement (FSA) other conditions apply. Learn more about W3C Community and Business Groups.

This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication. Other documents may supersede this document. A list of current W3C Community Group reports and the latest revision of this report can be found in the W3C Community Group reports index at https://www.w3.org/community/reports/.

This document was published by the DTCG as a Candidate Recommendation following the definitions provided by the W3C process. Contributions to this draft are governed by Community Contributor License Agreement (CLA), as specified by the W3C Community Group Process.

While not a W3C recommendation, this classification is intended to clarify that, after extensive consensus-building, this specification is intended for implementation.

This specification is considered stable. Further updates will be provided in superseding specifications.

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, Marc Edwards, Marcos Castro, Mark Tomlinson, Matt Felten, Matt Ström-Awn, Miriam Suzanne, Namık Özgür Aydın, nicolaibach, Nicolaos Skimas, 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.