Open Props (and Custom Properties as a System)

Perhaps the most basic and obvious use of CSS custom properties is design tokens. Colors, fonts, spacings, timings, and other atomic bits of design that you can pull from as you design a site. If you pretty much only pull … https://css-tricks.com/open-props-and-custom-properties-as-a-system/

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