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Design tokens

Design tokens are the smallest stylistic pieces of our design system.

We use tokens:

  • To maintain a scalable and consistent visual system for user-interface (UI) development in a single source of truth instead of hard-coded style values or single-use variables
  • To ensure that only systematic decisions are used to style components and features

Tokens can be used in several formats: CSS custom properties, Less variables, SCSS variables, and JSON files.

Each token category has a demo page where you can see each token's name and value, a demo of the token, and information about where the token value comes from.

Using design tokens

Figma

Enable the Codex design tokens Figma library in your Figma projects to use all the design tokens that were translated into Figma styles.

NPM package

Learn how to use Codex design tokens via the @wikimedia/codex-design-tokens package.

In MediaWiki

Learn how to use Codex design tokens in MediaWiki.

Resources