Figma Tokens for TailwindCSS and DaisyUI

This repository contains the files with the configuration of the Design Tokens for TailwindCSS and DaisyUI that can be used with Tokens Studio for Figma (Figma Tokens).

What are Design Tokens?

Design Tokens are a way of abstracting design values into reusable, single sources of truth represented as data, that ensure systematically unified and cohesive product experiences. These values can include colors, typography, spacing, and more. By using Design Tokens, you can create a unified and consistent design system.

How to Use These Design Tokens

To use these Design Tokens, you need to have the Tokens Studio for Figma (Figma Tokens) plugin installed in your Figma account. Once installed, you can import the JSON files into your Tokens Studio and use them to create your design system.

These files were made with the standard version of the plugin without the Advanced themes or Compositions options that require a Pro account.

The files are divided into diferents sets, although in this way it is not possible to use Multi File Sync (Pro).

Files

This repository contains the following files:

• core.tw.figmaTokens.json: A JSON file containing the global configuration of the Design Tokens for TailwindCSS v.3.
• light.daisy.json and dark.daisy.json: A JSON file containing the configuration of the Design Tokens for DaisyUI with the variables of the default light and dark theme.

Tokens for TailwindCSS

1. Spacing: spacing

   • Same as TW, the spacing scale is inherited by the padding, margin, widht,height, maxHeight, gap, inset, and space using this token reference as value.
   • To build the spacing tokens, it's constructed using this formula: {fontSize.base} * (value in rem) without rem/px. More information about using Math: Link.

2. Typography: typography

   • Values: fontFamily, fontWeight, lineHeight, fontSize, letterSpacing, paragraphSpacing, paragraphIndent, textDecoration, textTransform.

3. Color: colors

   • In addition to the 5 gray palettes, there's an extra one called default-gray that you can use as a token reference and quickly replace the main palette. {colors.default-gray.400} = {color.slate.400}
   • The primary, secondary, status or base tokens are being used in the DaisyUI file.

4. Sizing: sizing and screens

   • sizing use the token references spacing for width and height values.

5. Border Radius: borderRadius

6. Border Width: borderWidth

7. Border: borderStyle

8. Opacity: opacity

9. Box Shadow: boxShadow

10. Font Family: fontFamily

    • The fontFamily.sans has the value "SF Pro, system-ui, sans-serif". It uses the Mac system font SF Pro and it doesn't use the allowed system-ui by Figma, in order to use the variable typography values.
    • Also, you can remove SF Pro to use system-ui, replace it with the variable typography Segoe UI from Windows, or use any other typography.

11. Font Weight: FontWeight

    • The default TW configuration includes the fontWeights: thin, extralight, light, normal, medium, semibold, bold, extrabold, and black.
    • They have been expanded with the fontStretch no available in TW: default, italic, compressed, condensed, and expanded from the SF Pro variable font.

12. Line Height: lineHeight

13. Font Size: fontSize

    • Calculated fontSize tokens based on {fontSize.base}.

14. Letter Spacing: letterSpacing

15. Paragraph Spacing: paragraphSpacing

16. Text Case: textTransform

17. Text Decoration: textDecoration

18. Dimension: dimension

    • dimension use the token references spacing.
    • This token is introduced in order to support the upcoming W3C format: Link

Tailwind defaultConfig

Full default config JSON for Tailwind 3.2.7: Link

Tokens for DaisyUI

1. Color: d_colors: d_colors.semantic, d_colors.base and d_colors.status.

2. Border Radius: d_borderRadius

3. Border Width: d_borderWidth

4. Text Case: d_textTransform

5. Other: d_other.buttons

Themes

The light and dark themes use a prefix to differentiate themselves from TW since they use the same reference. However, both of these themes use the same prefix=d_ to show the theme change when using Apply to selection and changing the active set.

DaisyUI variables and Token references.

Required

[data-theme="light"] {
  color-scheme: light;
  --p: {d_colors.semantic.primary};
  --s: {d_colors.semantic.secondary};
  --a: {d_colors.semantic.accent};
  --n: {d_colors.base.neutral};
  --b1: {d_colors.base.base-100};
}

Optional

[data-theme="light"] {
  color-scheme: light;
  --in: {d_colors.status.info};
  --inc: {d_colors.status.info-content};
  --su: {d_colors.status.success};
  --suc: {d_colors.status.success-content};
  --wa: {d_colors.status.warning};
  --wac: {d_colors.status.warning-content};
  --er: {d_colors.status.error};
  --erc: {d_colors.status.error-content};
  --rounded-box: {d_borderRadius.rounded-box};
  --rounded-btn: {d_borderRadius.rounded-btn};
  --rounded-badge: {d_borderRadius.rounded-badge};
  --animation-btn: ;
  --animation-input: ;
  --btn-text-case: {d_textTransform.btn-text-case};
  --btn-focus-scale: {d_others.btn-focus-scale};
  --border-btn: {d_borderWidth.border-btn};
  --tab-border: {d_borderWidth.tab-border};
  --tab-radius: {d_borderRadius.tab-radius};
  --pf: {d_colors.semantic.primary-focus};
  --pc: {d_colors.semantic.primary-content};
  --sf: {d_colors.semantic.secondary-focus};
  --sc: {d_colors.semantic.secondary-content};
  --af: {d_colors.semantic.accent-focus};
  --ac: {d_colors.semantic.accent-content};
  --nf: {d_colors.base.neutral-focus};
  --nc: {d_colors.base.neutral-content};
  --b2: {d_colors.base.base-200};
  --b3: {d_colors.base.base-300};
  --bc: {d_colors.base.base-content};
}

Contributing

If you would like to contribute to this repository, feel free to create a pull request with your changes.