Re: [community-group] [RFC] Design Token Editors (#36)

This is the ultimate question 😄

Some things also to consider is that while many design decisions happen in a design tool (Sketch/Xd/Figma/etc), there are many other design decisions that are *systems-based* and may not happen in those design tools whatsoever. For example, when creating a type system one of the key aspects is which type scale to use. The entire set of type sizes your system will support hinges on only two values: a base size (ie 14px) and a ratio (ie 1:1.125). Tools like [modular scale](https://www.modularscale.com/) are better suited for this. Same goes for color— color systems require more than what current design tools offer in order to create a whole system. 

I see this spec as offering what will eventually become a sort of API for disparate authoring tools to integrate with an individual’s token repository and auxiliary tools. Then it will be a standard for publishing, management, and consumption tooling for design systems.

So now to actually answer your question 😇, our team does this manually, depending on the nature of what needs added into the system. But essentially yeah, copy-pasta for now🤷‍♂️, although we’re constantly exploring more efficient ways to author, manage, distribute, and integrate tokens into every resource we provide.

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