theme

These repository contains the Atom Learning Design System tokens, like colours, sizes, spaces, font families and so on.

How to add new tokens that are not part of the theme specification

If you need to add tokens that are not part of the theme specification, follow the instruction below. You can also have a look at this PR where we did it for aspect ratios.

• In system-ui-theme.js, in schema add a new field as an empty object, like ratios: {}

• Also in system-ui-theme.js, in matchSchema, add a new field named [category].[type], which value references the field you added to schema in the previous step. For example if the category is ratios, and the type is ratio, it would look like 'ratios.ratio': 'ratios

• Depending on what you are adding you might have to add it to an existing .json file or create a new one. In our example, we created a new one src/properties/ratios.json, and added all our tokens there. The json structure is as follow

  • first level: the category mentioned in the step above
  • second level: the type mentioned in the step above
  • third level: the token name, as you would use it with $, e.g.: $16-9
  • fourth level: value, the value the token will be replaced by.

  e.g.:

  {
    "ratios": {
      "ratio": {
        "16-9": {
          "value": "16/9"
        },
        "3-2": {
          "value": "3/2"
        },
        "4-3": {
          "value": "4/3"
        },
        "1-1": {
          "value": "1/1"
        },
        "3-4": {
          "value": "3/4"
        }
      }
    }
  }

  • In style.config.js add your new category (if you added a new category) to the filter of the formatter 'custom/format/scss-map-flat'. So it's treated the same way than 'size' and 'effects'

  • In theme-map.js add the (css property -> category) relation to themeMap, in this example, we added aspectRatio: 'ratios'. This themeMap config is exported and used by projects using our theme repo. It's used by createStitches() from @stitches/react so that we don't have to reference the type, so we can call the token like '$16-9' instead of '$ratios$16-9'

How is themeMap used?

For example, in components repo we use it like this:

...
import { createStitches, defaultThemeMap } from '@stitches/react'
import { themeMap } from '@atom-learning/theme/theme-map'

...

const stitchesConfig = createStitches({
  theme: atomTheme as Theme,
  themeMap: {
    ...defaultThemeMap,
    ...themeMap
  },
  utils,
  media
})

Why/When do we need themeMap?

Some CSS properties are not included in the defaultThemeMap. If they are missing (e.g.: aspectRatio) you need to add them to our custom themeMap which we pass to stitches themeMap config