Articles

Concepts, release announcements, decisions, and roadmap updates from the Spectrum Design Data team.

• Configuring design-data for your platform

  Concepts October 19, 2026

  How implementation teams install the design-data CLI, choose between the CLI, MCP server, and WASM package, and select a platform manifest through `.design-data.toml`, an environment variable, or a flag.

• Why Figma and DTCG became plugins

  Decisions September 21, 2026

  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.

• Exporting Spectrum tokens to DTCG

  Concepts September 17, 2026

  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.

• Understanding Spectrum design tokens

  Concepts July 10, 2026

  A technical companion to the S2 design-tokens page, with real token names and values, and where the token format is headed next.