Design Tokens Technical Reports 2025.10

Draft Community Group Report

Latest published version:
https://www.designtokens.org/TR/2025.10/
Editors:
Louis Chenais
Mike Kamminga
Kathleen McMahon
Drew Powers
Matthew Ström-Awn
Donna Vitan
Authors:
Daniel Banks
Esther Cheran
Andrew L’Homme
Ayesha Mazrana (Mazumdar)
James Nash
Adekunle Oduye
Kevin Powell
Lilith Wittmann
Feedback:
GitHub design-tokens/community-group (pull requests, new issue, open issues)

Abstract

Design tokens are indivisible pieces of a design system such as colors, spacing, typography scale.

Design tokens were created by the Salesforce design system team, and the name comes from them (Jon & Jina).

Status of This Document

This is a preview

Do not attempt to implement this version of the specification. Do not reference this version as authoritative in any way.

This specification was published by the Design Tokens Community Group. It is not a W3C Standard nor is it on the W3C Standards Track. Please note that under the W3C Community Contributor License Agreement (CLA) there is a limited opt-out and other conditions apply. Learn more about W3C Community and Business Groups.

This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication. Other documents may supersede this document. A list of current W3C Community Group reports and the latest revision of this report can be found in the W3C Community Group reports index at https://www.w3.org/community/reports/.

⚠️ This is a preview draft of in progress changes. Do not refer to this document directly, and do not implement anything in this document.

GitHub Issues are preferred for discussion of this specification.

1. Modules

The Design Tokens specification is composed of multiple modules:

2. Resources

A. Acknowledgements

We'd also like to thank the following contributors: 360Creators, adamstankiewicz, adekunleoduye, aeons, apollonian, applinist, blackfalcon, bomberstudios, c1rrus, chasemccoy, ChucKN0risK, Claude, Copilot, dbanksdesign, dev-nicolaos, dflynn15, dgtlntv, donnavitan, dontcallmedom, drwpow, dzhavat, EisenbergEffect, EvanLovely, ffriedl89, gcaaa31928, guylepage3, honzatmn, ilikescience, ivnmaksimovic, jina, jonnyl, jorenbroekema, julien-deramond, kaelig, kevinmpowell, Kilian, kizu, kvnsmth, laat, lauthieb, literalpie, lukasoppermann, malangcat, marcedwards, marcoscv-work, mark-tomlinson-dev, mattfelten, mikekamminga, mirisuzanne, mrginglymus, nagueva, NeoPhi, nicolaibach, origami-z, PavelLaptev, raunaqgupta, resource11, robintindale, scips, sghoweri, sturobson, TrySound, vostrik, and zavalit.