Design Tokens for Developers and UI Designers

Learn how color, typography, spacing and radius tokens make design systems easier to maintain.

The essentials

Primitive tokens represent raw values, while semantic tokens describe roles such as surface, text or accent. Create a small naming scheme, map light and dark mode values, and export CSS or JSON. Token consistency matters more than the number of available colors.

Put the idea into practice

Experiment with these free tools. Review the generated code and adapt it to your own brand, user interface and accessibility requirements.

Keep improving your design

Test on desktop and mobile, check text readability, and keep your CSS and design tokens maintainable. Explore the complete ColorPremise tool library when you need another component or asset.