Design Systems

Design Tokens Are the Contract Between Design and Code

Why treating color, spacing, and type as versioned data keeps design and engineering in sync.

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Marcus Webb

Design Systems

Why treating color, spacing, and type as versioned data keeps design and engineering in sync.

M

Marcus Webb

Founder, Webjoni

August 31, 20261 min read

Most 'design and engineering are out of sync' problems trace back to one root cause: values live in two places that don't talk to each other.

Design tokens fix this by making those values shared, versioned data.

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