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Tokenpedia Defining terms for design tokens

Delimiter

A character meant to separate levels of a token schema usually specific to the environment where the token is expected to be used.

Example

Section titled “Example”
color.red.500
color-red-500
color_red_500

In the above examples, each token uses the same levels but with different delimiters.

Note

It is not uncommon for the delimiter to change based on the environment where the token is used. For example, the . delimiter is invalid in CSS custom properties. What makes the token name identifiable is its levels. Tokens with identical levels but different delimiters should resolve to the same final value.