Design Token

by Owl-Listener

Design Token is a Frontend skill for Claude Code, published by Owl-Listener in designer-skills.

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Install Design Token

Copy Design Token into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills/tree/main/design-systems/skills/design-token ~/.claude/skills/design-token

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: design-systems/skills/design-token/SKILL.md in Owl-Listener/designer-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/design-token
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Frontend — 567 skills

What Design Token does

Design Token defines and organises design tokens for color, spacing, type, and elevation with naming and usage rules. Use it when establishing the token layer.

Design Token is cataloged under Frontend on DirSkills. Design Token comes from a repository tagged agentic, agentic-ai, ai, ai-tools and claude-code.

Documentation

README

From the original repository

Color: Global palette, alias tokens (surface, text, border), component tokens
Spacing: Base unit (4px/8px), scale (xs through 3xl), contextual (inset, stack, inline)
Typography: Font families, size scale, weights, line heights
Elevation: Shadow levels, z-index scale
Border: Radius scale, width scale, style options
Motion: Duration scale, easing functions

Token Tiers

Global tokens — Raw values (e.g., blue-500: #3B82F6)
Alias tokens — Semantic references (e.g., color-action-primary)
Component tokens — Scoped usage (e.g., button-color-primary)

Naming Convention

Pattern: {category}-{property}-{variant}-{state}

Best Practices

Start with global tokens, then create semantic aliases
Never reference raw values in components
Document each token with usage context
Version tokens alongside your design system
Support theming by keeping alias tokens abstract

Frequently asked about Design Token

What else does Owl-Listener publish alongside Design Token?
Design Token is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from Owl-Listener/designer-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Accessibility Audit, Affinity Diagram and Card Sort Analysis. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Design Token does, and is maintained by Owl-Listener in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the Owl-Listener/designer-skills page.
How does Design Token compare to other Frontend skills?
Design Token ranks #242 by stars among the 567 Frontend skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Angular Developer, Android Clean Architecture and Accessibility. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Design Token against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.