You don’t need a hundred components. You need a handful of tokens and the discipline to use them. Ours started as three pages in a notebook and still fits on one screen.
Start with tokens
| Token | Values | Rule |
|---|---|---|
| Colour | Ink, paper, one accent | Accent for actions only |
| Spacing | 4, 8, 16, 24, 40, 64 | Never in between |
| Type | Two families, five sizes | One size per job |
Components come later, once you’ve seen the same pattern three times. Until then, copy and paste is a perfectly good design system.
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