Explore design tokens

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What

Investigate if design tokens could be a useful new feature

Why

The intent of design tokens is to be a single source of truth for the design decisions of a product. The hypothesis is that investing more in this would enable us to more effectively distribute the styles/designs by having a single place that folks could go to to retrieve and understand the changes.

Who needs to work on this

Developers, designers

Who needs to review this

Developers, designers

Done when

• We understand how tokens work and how to build them
• We've decided what will go into our tokens
• We've got a draft implementation of design tokens in govuk-frontend