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Other Tokens allow you to capture design decisions that don't fit into another Token Type.
This provides flexibility to define and use tokens tailored to your specific needs. However, when applied to design elements, they don't interact with the Figma UI in any capacity.
Other Tokens can be used to define almost any design decision that works for you, your project and your team which aren't covered by an existing Token Type. For example:
Notes within your token sets you want to be surfaced to engineers.
Internal documentation.
Creating Tokens you don't want to interact with Figma.
Here are some creative ways the community is using Other Tokens:
Defining the CSS properties, like text alignment
Technical notes on where to find external documentation, like where to download a font family being used in the system.
Math equations referenced in Number or Dimension tokens to ensure they are preserved without cluttering the main token set.
For example:golden-ratio: 1.618
An Other Token can have any hard-coded value as needed, including:
String
Numeric with units
Numeric without units
Math equations
When trying to reference another Token as the Value for an Other Token, you will see Tokens in the dropdown list that are:
Living in Token Sets that are currently active.
In the left menu on the plugin's Tokens page, a checkmark is visible next to the Token Set name.
Token Type is compatible:
The same = other
You can apply an Other Token to attach it to any layer of a design element in Figma, however it does not change the element in any way.
With one or more elements selected in Figma, click on the name of your chosen Other Token in the Plugin to instantly attach the Token to the Element.
Other is not an official Token Type in the W3C DTCG specifications.
Tokens Studio has added Other as an unofficial Token Type to offer flexibility for custom properties not covered by the standard Token Types.
When transforming Other Tokens, there are some specific configurations to be aware of.
The preprocessor in the SD-Transforms package will automatically convert the Tokens Studio specific properties to align with the DTCG Format.
Token Values entered as a number without a unit will be converted to a number with pixels as a unit.
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Once a Token has been applied, it will remain attached until you manually remove it.
Engineers typically transform Tokens used in code with , which is tool-agnostic. Tokens coming from Tokens Studio require an additional step: , an npm package that prepares Tokens for Style Dictionary.
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However, like all Token Types, you can "force" a reference by manually entering the Token Name between curly brackets.
For example {token.name.here}
Jump to the guide on Token Values with References by selecting the card below to learn more.
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