Shit’s really going off the rails when MTG is a voice of reason.
What the fuck are we doing here, people? This is batshit.
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Shit’s really going off the rails when MTG is a voice of reason.
What the fuck are we doing here, people? This is batshit.
When you work in the glue layers of a design team like I do, your work is most often small iterations towards better vs. major refactors of your infrastructure layer. I recently led the rare major initiative to refactor the Wonder Blocks color palettes and semantic tokens schema at Khan Academy and am so proud of this work!
I even built you a little tool where you can enter color values to generate a primitives palette and semantic tokens using this schema.
https://blog.khanacademy.org/how-we-rebuilt-khan-academys-color-system-from-the-ground-up/