On the occasion of buying a license for Figma and putting Adobe Xd aside, I thought about creating a kbin system design ((unofficial, for testing figma and plugins).
But the post is not about that. I've been living for a while now and I still don't understand why designers stick to a full color palette. From 100 to 900 for each variant. Practice shows that no development team is able to implement it the way the ui designer dreamed. And this is regardless of the size of the company and the money spent on it. Not to mention pallet modifications.
I can't decide whether it's the designers' lack of knowledge that in ordinary SASS you can generate a practically full palette from one base color, or maybe the attitude that everything must be in line with their vision to the letter.
After all, the average user will not even notice the difference. Anyway, monitors have different settings, brightness, contrast, technology and screen quality and the effect will still differ from the designer's vision.
@cody Checkout Chakra UI we use it at work, and it's been far and away the best way to implement designs to spec from figma. Their variant and theme system is next level. We can access all those variants with just like "red.900" instead of having to use convoluted SASS functions.
@knoland I know chakra, in fact it's the same as what I'm writing about, only prepared and ready to work.
I'm not talking about the development side, but the masses of designers who spend days/months creating palettes, tints, shades. When in practice it doesn't really make sense. Whether the colors are generated in CSS, JavaScript or is a function built into a given framework is not so important. The point is not to do it manually because the marginal tonal differences in manual selection and generated shades will not be noticed by most users anyway.
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