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Design System Token Audit

Finds where a design system has drifted — one-off values, near-duplicate tokens, and the components that stopped using it.

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CategoryDesignForDesigners, DevelopersTested onClaudeChatGPT

Running it, start to finish

  1. Export your token definitions and grep the codebase for hard-coded values.
  2. Resolve the near-duplicates before adding anything new.
  3. Work the migration checklist in order, getting sign-off where marked.

What you get back

The output this produces, every time.

  • Finds near-duplicate tokens, which is how systems become unusable rather than abandoned.
  • Separates hard-coded values that had a token available from ones that revealed a coverage gap.
  • Checks contrast on the pairs actually used together, including disabled and placeholder states.

Getting better results

Where this usually goes wrong, and how to avoid it.

  • Grep for hard-coded values first. Hex codes, pixel values, rem literals. Section 3 is the most actionable output and it needs that list to work.
  • Take the semantic layer seriously. If your tokens are all primitives, re-theming and dark mode are effectively blocked, and that is usually discovered at the worst moment.
  • Get sign-off on visible changes. Section 7 marks them. Retiring a near-duplicate colour is a visual change even when it is obviously correct.

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