- From: Lukas Oppermann via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 20:17:28 +0000
- To: public-design-tokens-log@w3.org
Hey @kevinmpowell, thanks for reaching out. I feel the RFC format topic has grown quite broad so that a lot if things get lost within the many, many lines of text. 😁 As this is a very important questions I think it deserves a separate place, especially since I think it may only be related but not completely included in the format standard. (Technically, so far at least, a token could be of any type and kind.) ### Concerning shorthands & knowledge of context I agree with that tokens (being in their nature technology agnostic) should have NO knowledge of the context. I am more concerned with the mental model around tokens. As a designer a `token` I use in e.g. Figma would be `shadow-small` once this is setup up as a style I am normally not concerned with the particular details of how the blur is or how git the shadow is. In a designers mental model the shadow as a whole would thus be a token. From a developers point of view this may be different (it may depend on the technology they are used to, but it may also not). I think this mental model is what we can and should still standardise and form. Do I make sense? 🙃 -- GitHub Notification of comment by lukasoppermann Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/design-tokens/community-group/issues/42#issuecomment-700962546 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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