ckm:design-system

A three-layer design token architecture organizes UI styling into primitive, semantic, and component layers. You need it to systematically manage CSS variables and ensure brand-compliant consistency across complex component states and scales.

You can generate CSS variables from a design tokens JSON file by processing the primitive, semantic, and component layers. This Skill automates that conversion to output structured CSS variables for your UI styling and brand guidelines.

To create brand-compliant presentations, you apply your defined design tokens and component specifications to slide generation. This ensures visual consistency by automatically mapping spacing, typography, and color variables directly into your presentation templates.

Yes, you can integrate this approach into an existing component library by mapping your current styles to the primitive, semantic, and component token layers. This facilitates systematic design updates without breaking existing UI structures.

The best way to manage component specifications and design scales is by defining a structured token system. This approach enforces consistency across spacing, typography, and component states by standardizing the underlying CSS variables.

When using CSS variables for semantic design tokens in presentation generation, limitations may arise if the target presentation platform does not support native CSS variable parsing. You must ensure the output format correctly maps tokens to compatible presentation styling.