[community-group] A comment about history of design tokens (#231)

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== A comment about history of design tokens ==
Hello Design Tokens community group.

I am not sure if this comment is pertinent for several reasons, but I am doing the comment for if is pertinent.

My comment is about your definition: "Design tokens are indivisible pieces of a design system such as colors, spacing, typography scale." located here https://tr.designtokens.org/.

Please let me know if I am misunderstanding how is defined what "Design tokens" is, but I believe that the "indivisible pieces of a design system such as colors, spacing, typography scale" concept already was used by other systems design within graphic, textile, architecture, industrial world like hardware systems (Cars, home and office objects from specific companies, or design movements like Bauhaus and others and its design principles) and even within UI software design world.

I hope not being bother, but if I am not wrong, within Occident with their Baroque, Renaissance, Ancient Rome, Greece, and other ancient Asian, Africa or South-america cultures can be traced aesthetic principles where colors, spacing, and maybe typography among other principles were developed (even other areas like music, food) as base patterns reused within cultural productions and products.

I am not sure if the comment is useful, but if it is, I think, could be more accurate to indicate that when you are referring about the term "Design tokens", maybe when the term was coined first?. 

Please let me know if I am wrong or if I am misunderstanding the definition or the way how is defined Design Tokens, which is absolutely possible.

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