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).
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.
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This document was published by the DTCG as a Working Draft following the definitions provided by the W3C process. 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.
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 unstable, and should not be implemented.
GitHub Issues are preferred for discussion of this specification.
The Design Tokens specification is composed of multiple modules:
We'd also like to thank the following contributors: Abhishek Warokar, Adam Stankiewicz, Ale Muñoz, Asher, Benjamin Kindle, Bjørn Madsen, Chase McCoy, Dale Sande, Daniel Flynn, Daniel Rinehart, Danny Banks, Dominique Hazael-Massieux, Drew Powers, Evan Lovely, Fabian Friedl, Guilherme Nagüeva, Guy Lepage, Ivan Maksimovic, Jan Toman, Jina Anne, Jon Levine, Joren Broekema, Kaelig Deloumeau-Prigent, Kilian Valkhof, KLS, Laurent Thiebault, Lukas Oppermann, Marcos Castro, Mark Tomlinson, 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, Vsevolod Dolgopolov (aka Seva), and Zhihao Cui.