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Learn how to create a simple design system for colors and text styles

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https://www.figma.com/community/file/1085504531661017935/Smart-Home-App

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Design System

For a more in-depth understanding of a design system, click on this link from the Design System in Figma course https://designcode.io/design-system-in-figma.

Color Style

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For this tutorial, we will create our own color style for Light and Dark . As for the text styles, we will create for Regular and Bold.

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First, build your color style structure and set your colors.

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Now let’s create a style for each color. Under the Fill panel, click on Style icon and click on “ +” to create a new style.

It is important to have a structure so use a naming convention like this one : Color System/Label Color/Light/ . Create a style for Primary , Secondary , Tertiary and Quarternary.

Repeat same steps for dark version using this naming Color System/Label Color/Dark/.

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Once it’s all done, it will be displayed like this.

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To use the color style, select an element and in the Fill panel, click on Styles and select the desired color.

Text Style

Design System image 7 For Regular Styles , repeat the same steps as for the color style using the name convention starting with Default/Regular/.

Do the same thing for Bold Styles using Default/Bold/.

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Once it’s completed, it will look like this. The process takes a little bit of time but once it’s implemented, it will significantly speed up your work process and will help make it much more consistent throughout your design.

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We all try to be consistent with our way of teaching step-by-step, providing source files and prioritizing design in our courses.

Akson Phomhome

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Designer at Design+Code.

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