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Discussion on: The Practice: Semantic Colors for Designers

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Marius

Very insightful, thanks Emily.

At the agency I work we are always looking to improve our methodologies, and I've been looking for solid approaches on this specific topic—This one takes the cake so far; easy to understand and intuitive.

I'd be curious to learn more how you decided on your Groups and how you keep things lean in general (in and outside of Figma). I noticed a budgetBarOnNonWhiteBackground so it seems things can get quite granular. In an agency context we have to solve for many different scenarios and projects, so especially tough to come up conventions that scale.

I've been experimenting with having the source of truth live in an Airtable or Google Sheet, generating specifications in Figma through a plugin, which is exciting, but exporting code from Figma seems the way to go. I'd be interested in trying the plugins you've built.