Design Tokens Resources
Reference sites
W3C Draft Specification for Design Tokens
Awesome Design Tokens
Stuart Robson's awesome list for design tokens.
Articles
Design Tokens and how a W3C specification will help going forward
This blog talks about design tokens and their usage. It will expand on how different tools work with them, including our tool: Backlight. Finally, it discusses the W3C Draft Specification for Design Tokens and how this will change the Design Token landscape.
Design Tokens: How to adopt Design Tokens from 0 to 1
For a step-by-step guide about how to start working with Design Tokens in your team, this article is for you. Miaomiao Liu nicely illustrates how Design Tokens can keep design and implementation connected.
Design Tokens in Figma: How to get started
In this talk, the creator of the Figma Tokens plugin, Jan Six goes through all the essentials for creating and maintaining Design Tokens in Figma.
Dark mode with Design Tokens
This article by Lukas Oppermann is the first of a two-part series all about Design Tokens and dark mode. It discusses everything from triggering dark mode, to setting up Design Tokens to get automatic dark mode for all components.
Design Tokens on Asana’s design system team
Watch this talk for a very practical take on Design Tokens. The Asana design system team discusses how they use Design Tokens to get designers and engineers working at the same level of abstraction.