Mastodawn

Gathered my thought in 2 blog posts about how to get typography tokens right in design systems:
https://guillaumemeigniez.me/blog/typography-tokens-are-hard-1/

#designsystem #typography

Typo tokens are hard to get right (Part 1) | Blog | Guillaume Meigniez

Have you ever tried updating your typography tokens? Chances are that for some of them you can't change their values that easily, and you might not realise it until it breaks your design system users' websites.

Show thread

gmmm 1d ago

Part 2 gives a few examples of how popular design system manage their typography tokens:
https://guillaumemeigniez.me/blog/typography-tokens-are-hard-2/

#designsystem #typography

Typo tokens are hard to get right (Part 2) | Blog | Guillaume Meigniez

Have you ever tried updating your typography tokens? Chances are that for some of them you can't change their values that easily. This blog post describes strategies chosen by popular design systems to face this issue.