Token pipeline · proof artefact

The substrate, proven end‑to‑end.

This page renders entirely from tokens. Every colour, size, space and radius below resolves through vendor/tokens.css, which is built from DTCG JSON and synced by the pipeline. There is no hand-written value on this page to fall back on — which is the whole point. The values printed beside each token are read back out of the rendered page, not typed in, so if a token changed and this page disagreed, it could only disagree with itself.

The page is laid out on the same 12-column grid and numbered rail as every other page here, so it demonstrates the layout system as well as the values underneath it.

01

Semantic colours

Thirteen roles, each an alias onto a primitive. The role is what a page consumes; the primitive underneath can move without a single consumer changing. Two roles here resolve to the same value — text/default and background/inverse are both the darkest neutral, because ink on paper and the ground of an inverse band are the same colour asked for two different reasons. That is the layer working, not a duplicate.

Text

  • colour/text/default
  • colour/text/muted
  • colour/text/inverse
  • colour/text/link
  • colour/text/link-hover
  • colour/text/on-accent

Background

  • colour/background/default
  • colour/background/raised
  • colour/background/inverse
  • colour/background/accent
  • colour/background/accent-hover

Border

  • colour/border/divider
  • colour/border/strong

02

Type scale

All eleven steps. Display sizes are Inter Tight, prose and UI are Inter. Sizes are authored in rem; the pixel figure beside each is that value resolved at the browser's root size.

1100 · Inter TightOrin
1000 · Inter TightBuild the substrate
900 · Inter TightThe system is the main thing
800 · Inter TightBuild, don't decorate
700 · Inter TightOne source of truth
600 · Inter TightThe substrate, not the surface
500 · InterDesign and development are one craft.
400 · InterShip the honest first version, then improve it.
300 · InterGet in touch
200 · Interorinsystems.co
100 · Inter01   02   03   04

03

Spacing

The scale has deliberate gaps — no 5, 7, 9, 10, 11. Reaching repeatedly for a value between two steps is a signal the scale needs a step, not a reason to hardcode one. Bars are drawn at the token's own width.

  • space/0
  • space/1
  • space/2
  • space/3
  • space/4
  • space/6
  • space/8
  • space/12
  • space/16
  • space/24

04

Radius

Four steps. radius/md does most of the work — it is on the button, the cards, and the swatches above.

  • radius/none
  • radius/sm
  • radius/md
  • radius/lg

05

Links

Prose and UI set in Inter; headlines in Inter Tight. A link resolves through the semantic colour/text/link token and shifts to link-hover on interaction.

06

Button primitive

One primary button sitewide, on background/accent with text/on-accent and radius/md.

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