Of Color and Software
Quoting: Of Color and Software – KDE and Plasma Design —
Note that as we follow Material design guidelines for these colors, we have a collection of 100 different color shades for a given color. Depending on the needs of the system or changes in design, we could decide to not use red50 but we would like more intensity. So we would choose red49, or red48, and so on.
The color variable name would change accordingly. This set up would allow designers and developers to understand the kind of token they are working with and it would be the same language for both developer and designer.
In Figma and PenPot, designers have the ability to name tokens however they like. I opted for keeping token names as we are recommending them for the Plasma system. That way there is good consistency.
This week, we consolidated these colors and we added them to the list of tokens in Figma and PenPot. However, there is still more to be done in the form of documentation for our Plasma developer team. We are still working through it, making sure we are accurate in the request for development.