Re: [community-group] How do you refer to files in the DTCG format? (#164)

* I refer to the `*.tokens.json` file as the **"manifest"**, because it provides metadata about design tokens, but doesn't represent their final form after transformation.
* I refer to the bundle of assets consumed downstream as the **"tokens package"**, which includes the manifest along with associated assets (SVGs, fonts, and other binary file formats).

I don't use the term "source" because the manifest could be built in a variety of ways:

1. verbatim as manually-written JSON
2. compiled from manually-written _source_ files (JSON, JSON5, YAML, TS, etc.)
3. managed from within design software (Figma, Sketch, Adobe suite, etc.), either directly or via plugins
4. generated from a database via a programmatic API
5. etc.

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