Design Tokens Community Group

Design Tokens are a technology-agnostic methodology, architecture, & process for scaling design across tools, devices, & platforms. Chairs: @kaelig @jina @vlh

[Design Tokens Community Group @DesignTokens]

Design Tokens Specification reaches first stable version: a huge milestone for design systems and the design tooling industry.

✅ Vendor-neutral
✅ Modern color support
✅ Theming and multi-brand ready
✅ Backed by design tools and open-source projects

https://t.co/NAJKQ7SKUL

[𝕞𝕒𝕩𝕧𝕠𝕝𝕥𝕒𝕣 @maxvoltar]

A few years ago I designed the original logo for @DesignTokens. Recently they asked me to refresh it: simpler, more versatile, and blue (the original color of links). The new logo builds on the old one, keeping the connected core while refining it for any size or use.

[Matt Ström-Awn @mattstromawn]

Stoked that Figma is shipping native design tokens import/export using the DTCG format! One more step in standardizing design tokens across tools. Figma's announcement: https://t.co/o7hw3rJxMz

And check out the latest version of the spec here:
https://t.co/6T0ix76sVJ

[Design Tokens Community Group @DesignTokens]

💬 Request For Comments

New Resolver specification, groups & Aliases updates 👇

https://t.co/KBGxNcjTkl

[Design Tokens Community Group @DesignTokens]

Hats off to the @penpotapp team for this monumental implementation of design tokens in their open-source design tool 🥳

[Penpot @penpotapp]

Importing & Exporting Tokens (JSON)

Learn how to smoothly import and export tokens as JSON files in Penpot. And also, how Penpot manages invalid tokens and ensures easy collaboration between design and code.

[Bora DAN @bqra]

Naming design tokens is easy. Until you have to name them.

[Design Tokens Community Group @DesignTokens]

In progress: Modes + Resolvers spec.

This will enable theming.

[Design Tokens Community Group @DesignTokens]

Hope everyone’s new year is off to a good start!

🧵 A thread of some recent DTCG news:

[Design Tokens Community Group @DesignTokens]

Color spec updates in review:

- Color Module - First Draft
https://t.co/mnmydDCXts

- Color format adjustments
https://t.co/eV0skZxtvt

[Design Tokens Community Group @DesignTokens]

We’ve been quiet over the past few months, but we’re still active!

In fact, breakthroughs were made in our latest spec meetings and we can’t wait to share more...

Massive thanks to the community for their understanding, these things take time 🙏🏻

[Design Tokens Community Group @DesignTokens]

@jimmy_morris Hey Jimmy – we’re still active ❤️

Our focus is on native modes and theming support, a *big* undertaking 😓 (see https://t.co/KYFVUNEcaW)

Recently, @TokensStudio and Cobalt joined our spec meetings and are already bringing amazing fresh ideas ✨

More on this very soon!

[Design Tokens Community Group @DesignTokens]

@jimmy_morris Hey Jimmy – we’re still active ❤️

Our focus is on native modes and theming support, a *big* undertaking 😓 (see https://t.co/KYFVUNEcaW)

Recently, @TokensStudio and Cobalt joined our spec meetings and are already bringing amazing fresh ideas ✨

More on this very soon!

[Esther Cheran 🌈 @EstherCheran]

Store your design tokens in W3C DTCG compatible format.
Coming soon to Tokens Studio 🚀

@DesignTokens

[Mykhaylo 🇺🇦🌻 @mryechkin]

New video! 📢

Learn how to use W3C @DesignTokens with Style Dictionary and @lukasoppermann's Style Dictionary Utils to turn your design system tokens into CSS assets.

#DesignSystems #DesignTokens #W3C #DTCG

https://t.co/60WkkYEMzT

[Kaelig @kaelig]

Reflecting on ~4 years of @DesignTokens ahead of our upcoming all-hands meeting: 400+ participants from all over tech, media, e-commerce, and financial services🤯

[Design Tokens Community Group @DesignTokens]

A quick update: the team is taking a break and will regroup in early 2024. Enjoy the holidays, everyone!

[Louis Chenais @ChucKN0risK]

I envision the same world but an even broader one. A design API that would power tokens and assets everywhere within an org design system.

Tokens and assets should navigate freely between teams and tools.

[Adam Sedwick @AdamSedwick]

On behalf of @designtokens:
We’re looking to update and refresh https://t.co/7Vt2O6HCKN. We've got some educational resources planned, but would love to hear what else y'all would like to see included.

What would be most useful to you?
We’d love to hear your feedback!

[Design Tokens Community Group @DesignTokens]

@danmall Sounds like we need a Business Tokens Community Group