A quarterly journal on design systems, tokens, and the unglamorous craft of keeping a brand consistent across forty surfaces. Written by the team building UISqueezy and the designers using it.
How we generate the portica scale — 50 to 900 — using OKLCH chroma curves and a single anchor.
The CI pipeline that gates every token export behind contrast, regression, and visual diff checks before it ever reaches main.
Most teams version colors religiously and treat type like wallpaper. Here's how we tokenized our display, body, and mono ramps without losing rhythm.
CRDTs, conflict resolution, and the moment we realized "push to Figma" was the wrong mental model.
What we learned from a year of community calls, office hours, and seven extremely heated Discord threads about z-index.
A short essay on why color.brand.500 beats colorBrand500, why we don't use semantic-only systems, and how the right name disappears.