Last updated Jul 29, 2026
Design Token Resources
A collection of specifications, tools, articles, and examples for building and working with design token systems.
Standards & Specifications
Design Tokens Community Group The home of the W3C community group working toward an interoperable standard for design tokens.
Design Tokens Format Module The specification for representing design tokens and groups, including types, aliases, composite values, and metadata.
Design Tokens Resolver Module An emerging specification for composing token files using sets, modifiers, contexts, and references.
Tools
Style Dictionary Amazon’s open-source build system for transforming design tokens into platform-specific outputs.
Tokens Studio Token authoring and management tooling with support for sets, themes, references, and synchronization with Figma.
Figma Variables Figma’s native system for reusable values, collections, modes, aliases, and variable scopes.
Architecture & Thinking
Nathan Curtis Nathan Curtis’s writing on token naming, architecture, tiers, component tokens, and scaling token systems.
Component-level Design Tokens Nate Baldwin on component tokens and if they’re worth it