[jastuk]

I was super happy learning about design tokens a couple of years back, and eager to use them, but since then my enthusiasm fell as it seemed to "never get there". Figma implemented something which is okay-ish, but completely useless for our needs, while Penpot announced their collab efforts and then radio silence for roughly 2 years now.

I could be out of the loop a bit, but I see that this spec is also still a draft. As somone who'd love to evangelize and implement design tokens internally, when do you see this stepping into the spotlight in a meaningful way? Is there a roadmap of some kind that's available to the public?

[kaelig]

It's certainly been a longer journey than I'd anticipated to get to a "V1", but the current snapshot of the spec does have good penetration, allowing us to see what works and what doesn't in the wild.

The main areas that need work for us to publish a "V1" are: - colors (it's almost there, we almost entirely reworked this part of the spec in depth over the past 2 years) - "modes" and "themes": the Tokens Studio team proposed the "resolvers" module, based on their user research and empiric evidence that it solves theming needs. We're editing it right now. Once it's in the spec, Figma will be in a position to support the spec natively.