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Building UI Design Systems

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Design Tokens

Design tokens are the foundation of a design system — colors, spacing, typography, and radii stored as CSS variables. This outline is in progress — expect a short read until full lessons ship.

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  • What are design tokens?Show answer

    Answer

    Named values for color, spacing, typography, radii, etc. — often CSS variables — that keep UI consistent.
  • Why store tokens as CSS variables?Show answer

    Answer

    They theme at runtime, stay shared across components, and avoid hard-coded one-off values.

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