designui-kits
Design Tokens and Dark Mode: Building a Consistent UI Kit
When color, spacing and radius live in tokens, theming becomes a one-file change. Here is the approach we use across Draupr assets.
Apex Auto Parts Editorial July 12, 2026
Design tokens are named values for color, spacing, radius and typography that every component reads from instead of hard-coding. Centralize them in a single source of truth and your entire UI can be re-themed, including a full dark or high-contrast mode, by editing one file. Enforce it with a small validator in CI that fails the build when a raw hex color appears in component code, so drift never creeps back in. The result is a UI kit where a brand refresh is a few token edits rather than a week of hunting through stylesheets.