#design-tokens
10 posts
Catching Design Token Drift in CI at the Figma-to-DTCG Boundary
A practical contract for what CI can validate—and what it cannot—when design tokens move from Figma into a repository.
The Canvas Became a Repository: Git Lineage, Token Contracts, and What Agents Can Finally Check
Nov 3–5 digest: design agents, Git lineage, prototype flows, and machine-readable token contracts—with the permission and migration limits.
Six to Ten Rounds: The Week Design Tooling Started Measuring the Revision Loop
Figma's APAC leadership says quality, not speed, is now the bottleneck. The Oct 30–Nov 2, 2026 design-agent news, scored on whether it shortens a round.
Token Modes as a Computable Contract: Checking Light, Dark, and High-Contrast Sets Against the DTCG Resolver
A static, spec-driven linting contract for light, dark, and high-contrast token modes using the DTCG 2025.10 resolver document constraints today.
DTCG Adoption at 3 of 15: Design News Digest, Oct 19–26, 2026
Week of Oct 19–26, 2026: a DTCG token-format audit, Figma Enterprise AI-credit controls, Weave models over MCP, Gemini 4 Argon in Figma Make, and what each means for agents.
Token Build-Output Drift: A Computable Check for DTCG to Style Dictionary to CSS
Six computable rules check that every DTCG source token maps to one emitted CSS custom property and that version bumps do not silently rename output.
Figma Just Moved the Rulebook Into the Library: Design News Digest, Week of Oct 19, 2026
Figma moved design rules into the library: Config India 2026 Guidelines, Specs, Code Layers and system checks, plus agent GA and where the DTCG spec stands.
Motion Tokens Are Machine-Readable Now: Duration and Cubic Bezier in DTCG 2025.10
DTCG Format Module 2025.10 defines duration, cubicBezier and transition tokens. Here are the unit and range rules, and a checkable verification plan an AI agent can run against a token file.
Design Tokens: The Machine-Readable Language AI Agents Need to Design Better
How AI agents can perceive, generate, map, and validate design tokens across five tools to build a computable design pipeline.
Primitive vs Semantic Tokens — When to Use What
Design tokens come in two flavors: primitive (pure values) and semantic (contextual meaning). Understanding the difference — and when to use each — is the foundation of any scalable design system.