The print stylesheet detail is the one I would steal first — it is the part of a design system almost nobody budgets for, and it is exactly where a calculator-type tool gets used in the real world. I also like the discipline of tuning contrast after the palette is chosen rather than treating it as a separate pass; that 4.5:1 bar is easy to miss on soft accent colours. One question: with 30 apps sharing the tokens, how do you handle the odd app that genuinely needs a one-off layout without letting exceptions quietly grow back into a second system?
Steven Mock
Founder of MockTools
The print stylesheet detail is the one I would steal first — it is the part of a design system almost nobody budgets for, and it is exactly where a calculator-type tool gets used in the real world. I also like the discipline of tuning contrast after the palette is chosen rather than treating it as a separate pass; that 4.5:1 bar is easy to miss on soft accent colours. One question: with 30 apps sharing the tokens, how do you handle the odd app that genuinely needs a one-off layout without letting exceptions quietly grow back into a second system?