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Design systems your AI can actually read

One portable design.md file describes a whole design language — color, type, motion — for humans and coding agents alike.

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designmd.design.md
design.md
---
name: DesignMD
category: developer-tools
tokens:
  color:
    brand:
      primary:   oklch(0.55 0.20 275)
      secondary: oklch(0.68 0.15 200)
    surface:
      base: oklch(0.99 0.004 275)
  radius:
    md: 0.625rem
---
rendered UI
PrimarySecondary
Exportstheme.csstokens.jsonai-promptfigma
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ClaudeCursorv0CopilotTailwind CSSFigma

A growing catalog of hand-authored systems — every one validated and AA-checked.

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The engine round-trips a single file into every format your stack and your AI tools already speak.

MDdesign.md

The canonical file — drop into a repo or paste into Claude or Cursor.

CSStheme.css

A Tailwind v4 @theme block, ready to import.

JSONtokens.json

W3C DTCG design tokens for any build pipeline.

FIGfigma.tokens

Tokens Studio format, for designers.

AIai-prompt.md

An instruction-shaped system prompt for coding agents.

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