I've pasted #0F172A into a variables file roughly eighty times this month. Every time we tweaked our dark mode contrast, I was the one manually updating theme.ts and waiting for the GitHub action to run. Tracking down a rogue #111827 that sneaked into a border utility was driving me slowly insane.
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How often do your developers accidentally hardcode colours instead of using your variables?