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# Design Token Parser Specify

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Connects Figma to your codebase so a designer's color, font, spacing, or shadow change flows automatically through a single source of truth into Tailwind config, CSS variables, Swift, and Kotlin. It uses the DTCG (W3C draft) JSON standard with Specify, Style Dictionary, and the Tokens Studio Figma plugin. Ends the designer-developer ' on-screen color doesn't match the code' loop.

## Use cases
- Auto-syncing Figma color, typography, and spacing changes into code
- Sharing one token source across web, iOS, and Android
- Avoiding manual updates to 50+ components after a brand refresh
- Setting up dark/light or locale-based dynamic token swapping
- Establishing round-trip Figma to Git to code sync with conflict resolution
- Validating WCAG contrast on color tokens inside the pipeline

## Benefits
- Cut brand refreshes from weeks of manual edits to a single commit
- Keep web and mobile pixel-identical from one source of truth
- End the 'I said this color, you coded another' designer-developer friction
- See Figma changes live in a preview within minutes

## What’s included
- DTCG-compliant JSON token schema with primitive, semantic, and component layers
- Style Dictionary config compiling to Tailwind, CSS, Swift, and Android XML
- Tokens Studio GitHub Action for automated build on token changes
- Alias chain resolution and a Specify-vs-Tokens-Studio-vs-manual decision tree
- Round-trip Figma-Git-code sync with conflict resolution strategies
- In-pipeline WCAG contrast validation and secret-leak prevention

## Who it’s for
Design-system teams and front-end developers who want Figma and code to stay in lockstep across web and mobile without manual token copying.

## How it runs
The pipeline that moves a designer's Figma change into production code automatically: DTCG JSON as the single source, Style Dictionary compiling to every platform. The run loop:
1. Routes the client through a tooling decision tree first: under 50 stable tokens means manual config and this skill is overkill; 50 to 200 tokens with Figma and GitHub means the free Tokens Studio plugin plus a GitHub Action; 200-plus tokens across web, iOS and Android means the paid Specify tier.
2. Serializes the brand into DTCG standard JSON where every token carries a $type and $value, organized as a three-layer alias chain (component references semantic, semantic references primitive) with a maximum depth of four to avoid parse loops.
3. Sets up the Style Dictionary config that compiles the single JSON source into platform outputs: a Tailwind preset, CSS variables, a Swift class for iOS and colors.xml for Android, so one brand change ships to every platform at once.
4. Wires the GitHub Action that fires on token changes: it validates the DTCG schema (failing on any token missing $type), runs WCAG contrast validation that blocks low-contrast tokens at the PR, builds all platform artifacts and commits them.
5. Imports the generated preset into the Tailwind config so no hex value is ever hand-written in code, then picks a round-trip conflict strategy (designer wins, developer wins, or diff review) so Figma and the repo never silently drift apart.
6. Closes on the done criteria: a designer color change in Figma is live on the preview deploy within minutes, and a brand refresh is one commit instead of weeks of manual component edits.

## FAQ
### Does this need Tokens Studio and Specify, or will it work with my current Figma?
It is built around the Tokens Studio plugin, Specify and Style Dictionary, so those are the moving parts. If your team is not on that chain yet, standing it up is part of the setup, not an afterthought.

### Will a designer's color change in Figma actually reach my Swift and Kotlin code, or just the web?
Yes, the DTCG JSON token source feeds Tailwind, CSS variables, Swift and Kotlin from one place. The same edit propagates to every target instead of being retyped per platform.

### Does it sync everything from Figma, or only design tokens?
It handles the token layer: color, typography, spacing and shadow. Component logic, layout and behaviour are not tokens, so those still move through your normal code workflow.

## Price
$15, one-time, no subscription. VAT included.

Related guide: [Building a design system with Claude Design](https://forgehouse.ai/guides/claude-design-design-system/)