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Designing a type system you can hand to a Dev

How we structure Figma type styles so engineers ship them in one sitting.

A Figma type system shouldn't end at "Heading 1." If your handoff requires a designer to translate that into responsive Tailwind classes, you've shipped half a system.

What our handoff includes

  • Named tokens: --font-display, --font-body, --font-mono.
  • Responsive scale: mobile + desktop sizes for every style.
  • Letter-spacing baked into tokens, not applied per-component.
  • Component examples showing the style in real layouts.

When the engineer opens the Figma file, every style they need is a token, the responsive scale is decided, and there's nothing left to interpret. Implementations ship faster and look exactly like the design.

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