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

A bit late to the party here, but I wanted to give my $0.02 in case it helps. 

The distinction we draw most often is not between the output from tokens, but rather the tokens expressed in Figma (stored as Figma variables) and our source-of-truth token files, which have `.tokens.yaml` extensions. When referring to the yaml files and their output, we call them "tokens in code". I refer to the source-of-truth tokens at "canonical tokens", though, to really emphasize that these are the starting point from a normative point of view. I think "source" _could_ be just as good a term, but that word is used all sorts of places in development... so I think it is handy to have a somewhat unique (and still very clear) term for the source-of-truth tokens.

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