- From: Travis Spomer via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2022 21:14:11 +0000
- To: public-design-tokens-log@w3.org
We can't call it a "manifest" because that means something entirely different. A manifest is a list of cargo. In software it means [a file that either lists or describes other files](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_file) and that's not what a design token file is at all.
If someday you had one token file for light theme and one token file for dark theme, you might also have a third file that just lists the other two, and *that* would be a manifest.
```json
{
"light": "light.tokens.json",
"dark": "dark.tokens.json"
}
```
NPM's `package.json` files can be described as manifest files because they describe the whole package of files. And PWAs have a `.webmanifest` file that describes the application as a whole.
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