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To replace hard-coded styles with design tokens, initiate a design-system normalization pass that analyzes current implementations, maps hard-coded color, typography, and spacing values to your token set, and applies token-based styling while preserving existing interactions.

UI normalization is the process of reconciling UI implementations with design system standards. You need it when inconsistent hard-coded styling across pages and features makes your product look incoherent and harder to scale.

Yes, you need an existing design system token set before normalizing UI components. The normalization process requires this token set to replace hard-coded values and enforce coherent patterns across typography, color, and spacing.

The best way to enforce design system consistency is to run a normalization pass that replaces hard-coded values with reusable tokens and components, and validates accessibility and visual harmony across all pages and features.

Yes, you can normalize UI styling without breaking existing interactions. The normalization process explicitly preserves existing behavior while improving token-based styling, UX alignment, and accessibility across your components.

A design system normalization pass verifies accessibility and visual harmony by validating contrast ratios and checking that typography, color usage, and spacing align with coherent token-based patterns after replacing hard-coded values.