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Allotment Rules for Design Tokens: Grow Patches, Not a Monoculture

Allotment Rules for Design Tokens: Grow Patches, Not a Monoculture

Design token systems fail like allotment monocultures: one crop everywhere, one pest, and the whole plot suffers. This opinionated guide separates primitive, semantic, and component tokens so teams can grow their own patches without forking the system.