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typeof.eth 🔵

Maybe hot take, but I really don't see the point of having ~10 shades per color in a design system. Do we need more than foreground/background/hover variants for every single color? I can see the case for more grays, maybe. Curious what y'all think.

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Darryl Yeo 🛠️ (at Devcon)

Now that we have color-mix(), we really only need to define one or two base accent colors then derive any variants we need dynamically. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/color_value/color-mix

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I’m with you, a few semantic variants is the way to go. Having 10 options to choose from will just make things inconsistent

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Color is so extremely contextual that more than one shade is necessary to get consistent looks across different contexts. This is a case where 1 + 1 does not equal 2

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It could depend on your treatment of color. High-contrast style can get away w/ fewer variants. Opacity could go a long way in creating the illusion of shades (e.g. Warpcast). Sometimes inverting colors won't always work for dark mode, so you might need separate values for that

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I hope no one is arguing with you. I think even 2 shades of the same color would make ADA compliance a headache for anyone downstream working on implementation

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My go to template is: Primary (lighter) + Highlight Secondary (darker) + Shadow

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the Blair witch

+1 not having multiple shades. Internally calculate hover/pressed/theme shades but you only need to expose one shade per palette color.

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In my experience it’s better to build the colors in as you need them. Scale with the design environment. A neutral scale is important for utility, but for all else, start with your base color palette. Add in a couple tints and shades to start. Intentionally add more shades for specific component states. Standardize.

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