Re: [community-group] Use CSS as a transfer format instead of JSON. (#185)

One of the core principles of design tokens is that they are platform agnostic because they MUST be usable in differnt implementation/design. A single design tokens must support other platforms too, that's why they have to be raw data and then transformed for the supported platforms.

CSS is already a domain-specific (or platform-specific), and so is one output language, more precisely the one for web-based implementations (but there are many supported formats on web). It cannot be the initial format for tokens then, the same way design tokens unlikey hold css-specific values like `rem`, `%` etc...

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