[seumars]

It sounds to me that if your team is relying that much on inspecting values, you're doing the developers (or designers) a disservice one way or another. A well defined set of design tokens is all that's needed, and isn't rocket science either. Not to mention that encouraging developers to copy-paste CSS should be frown upon anyway.

[Justineo]

We have a Figma plugin that help do codegen for engineers. Our browser extension recognize the plugin data and make the code easier to access.

And the CSS code output can also carry design tokens.

[gingerrr]

Agreed! By the way, guess what else is paywalled by Figma https://tokens.studio/

edit: there is a free tier but core functionality like "create a variable" or "reference a variable" is Pro-only :P

[SeriousM]

That strongly reminds me on telerik themebuilder: https://themebuilderapp.telerik.com/ They allow you to inspect the designs like a dev mode but once you start customising it they charge you for "define a variable". I really hope this is no behavior to enforce devs to pay for IDE functionalities in the future.