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Transparency in Color Tokens

Transparency in Color Tokens

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Design systems can manage color transparency either by embedding alpha values directly into color tokens or by composing alpha separately at build time.
What: When creating color tokens for design systems, two main approaches exist for handling transparency: either include the alpha channel directly within the color's hexadecimal or RGBA value, or keep the alpha value separate and combine it with the color during the build process.
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Transparency in color tokens can be handled by either embedding alpha directly in the value or keeping alpha separate and composing at build time.

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