Design Tokens specification reaches first stable version

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Open standard enables seamless interoperability between design tools.San Francisco, CA– October 28, 2025 – The Design Tokens Community Group today announced the first stable version of the Design Tokens Specification (2025.10), marking a milestone for design systems teams and tool makers worldwide. After years of collaborative development, the specification provides a production-ready, vendor-neutral format for sharing design decisions across tools and platforms.Design tokens: the single source of truth for colors, typography, spacing, and other design decisions – have long been fragmented across proprietary formats. Teams maintaining multi-brand design systems often juggle dozens or even hundreds of token files manually, leading to drift, errors, and maintenance overhead. The new stable specification addresses this through standardized support for theming, modern color spaces, and cross-tool interoperability.“The specification unlocks interoperability across design tools and code…