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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
w3.org/community/design-toke…
Thank you, @jina and @vlh 💙
Jina and Val are becoming chairs emerita of the Design Tokens Community Group.
Jina coined “design tokens” (with Jon Levine), helped start the group, and built our first site.
Val shaped how the group operates & meets.
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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.
Design Tokens Community Group retweeted
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: figma.com/blog/schema-2025-d…
And check out the latest version of the spec here:
designtokens.org/tr/2025.10/
💬 Request For Comments
New Resolver specification, groups & Aliases updates 👇
w3.org/community/design-toke…
Hats off to the @penpotapp team for this monumental implementation of design tokens in their open-source design tool 🥳
Color spec updates in review:
- Color Module - First Draft
github.com/design-tokens/com…
- Color format adjustments
github.com/design-tokens/com…
Recently merged: “Proposal: add $deprecated property”
github.com/design-tokens/com…
Everyone, please welcome our recently added editors to the team:
- Drew Powers, design engineer at @Figma
- @mikekamminga, co-founder of @TokensStudio
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 🙏🏻
Hey Jimmy – we’re still active ❤️
Our focus is on native modes and theming support, a *big* undertaking 😓 (see github.com/design-tokens/com…)
Recently, @TokensStudio and Cobalt joined our spec meetings and are already bringing amazing fresh ideas ✨
More on this very soon!
Design Tokens Community Group retweeted
Store your design tokens in W3C DTCG compatible format.
Coming soon to Tokens Studio 🚀
@DesignTokens
Design Tokens Community Group retweeted
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
youtu.be/RcxP0RePlVU
Design Tokens Community Group retweeted
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🤯
ALT List of companies represented on the Design Tokens Community Group
A quick update: the team is taking a break and will regroup in early 2024. Enjoy the holidays, everyone!
Design Tokens Community Group retweeted
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.
Why is this exciting?
Personally, I can see a world where we manage cross functional variables with Figma + JSON, feeding them into tools where our XFN teams work
JSON ↔️ Figma
↪️ Photoshop for brand work
↪️ InDesign for print work
↪️ After Effects for video work
ALT Visual explainer for the text in the tweet. A bidirectional horizontal is between JSON and Figma, with downward arrows from that block pointing towards Photoshop, InDesign, and After Effects
Design Tokens Community Group retweeted
On behalf of @designtokens:
We’re looking to update and refresh designtokens.org. 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!
