We stopped picking greys
A pure neutral is the one colour on a page that tells the reader nobody chose it.
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Notes
Notes on tokens, type and the parts of a design system that only show up eighteen months later.
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The ratio is the design
One number decides whether a page reads as a prospectus, a product or a menu.
Container queries killed our breakpoint file
A card should ask how wide it is, not how wide the window is.
Dark mode is six numbers, not a second design
If your two schemes can drift apart, you have built two themes and will maintain two themes.
What a design token is not
A variable named after the thing it happens to be used for is not a token. It is a shortcut…
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