Include color variable alias in dev mode side panel

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.

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Keeping this thread active: our design director just asked what the quickest way is to find which variable alias we’re using for a form label. Our answer: break the color, reverse search the hex. This is SHAMEFUL. Please, please fix this. If not by introducing it in dev mode, then enable a read-only variables collection so that a user can trace it back through the design system library without actually having to open the design system file.

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Omg. This. I have to use variable to css plug in and … wait for it…copy and paste into a word doc. Then cut out everything but the new or changed variables in the word doc :woman_facepalming:.