This is the official DTWG repository for the design tokens specifications.
Design tokens are indivisible pieces of a design system such as colors, spacing, typography scale.
Design tokens were created by Salesforce, and the name comes from Jina.
Sharing design properties such as a color palette across many tools and platforms should be simple.
The DTWG’s goal is to provide standards upon which products and design tools can rely for sharing stylistic pieces of a design system at scale.
We believe that a common way to share design tokens will unlock efficiency opportunities for plugins, design system teams, product teams, and end-users of design tools.
The DTWG was founded in June 2019. By the end of 2019, our aim is to have a standard working across at least 3 design or prototyping tools.
The working group is composed of UX professionals, developers, and representants of design tooling vendors.
To achieve a v1 of the specification rapidly, its structure is restricted to a small, focused amount of people, organized in task forces.
As vendors adopt the specification and new requirements appear, the working group will consist of additional task forces.
- Diez
- Lona
- system-ui
- style dictionary
- ex-contributors to Theo
We are currently reaching out to various design software vendors to get a representative from each one on the working group.
We acknowledge that the format specification is only part of an ecosystem, supporting methods and practices that relate to scaling design tokens:
