LAUNCHED: Include color variable alias in dev mode side panel

My dev team are complaining that they can only access Hex values, this is useless information now that we’re trying to use semantic colour names

I also really need this so our devs can see the alias, please Figma!

Sometimes it feels like Figma holds off on most requested features for the annual Config conference just so that they have stuff to announce.

I’d far rather they just ship continuously.

That said, the latest multi-edit feature is fantastic.

the same goes for other types of variables like Spacing

the same goes for other types of variables like Spacing ! Please have this for dev mode

We need this otherwise there is not easy way to share variables with devs. I have a lot of them already!!

Need this urgently! Using plugins like variables2css to bridge that issue can only be a temporary solution.

Still needing this a LOT for alias tokens in our DS… It doesn’t make sense to use an alias token for color if devs will only see the HEX value.

Extremely frustrating as a dev trying to implement color tokens.

1. You can’t see what a token inherits from.
2. Given #1 you logically go to look for the list of tokens to figure out what it is.
3. You can’t even see the definitions of all the tokens.

How the hell are you supposed to figure out what something like button/fill-primary is then?
Given how hard it is to figure out what tokens, even getting a consistent way of using them across the team is a disaster, with people using hexcodes directly, some using half-complete token implementations that don’t inherit from each other + the list goes on on with how many ways I’ve seen this root cause fragment implementations.
This is literally an unusable feature without plugins in it’s current state that does more harm on the dev side then good on the design end.

I really need this feature! In the meantime, my team is using this approach (which I personally think is a workaround, but it works).

I created primitive tokens and allocated them into styles, so the inspection panel returns this structure to me.

The perfect scenario would be if the panel returned this same structure for aliases, so I wouldn’t have to work with styles.