Articles
Concepts, release announcements, decisions, and roadmap updates from the Spectrum Design Data team.
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Why Figma and DTCG became plugins
The ownership boundary that pulled Figma's Variables API and the W3C DTCG spec out of design-data-core, how it composes with per-platform manifests like spectrum-ios-design-data, and where a third-party plugin protocol could go from here.
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Exporting Spectrum tokens to DTCG
How resolve, query, and export produce W3C DTCG-conformant output from Spectrum's token data, and what to know before wiring it into Style Dictionary, Terrazzo, or Tokens Studio.
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Understanding Spectrum design tokens
A technical companion to the S2 design-tokens page, with real token names and values, and where the token format is headed next.