Presentational colors

Design tokens for data visualization and more

Lukas Oppermann
UX Collective
Published in
9 min readJun 1, 2023

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Cover illustration of two color collections

Presentational tokens bring the color into data visualisation¹ and customizable UI elements. They are the colors used for labels or folders and similar elements. What makes them specific in design token terms is, that they don’t have a semantic meaning. Unlike danger and success color tokens, presentational color tokens are used for anything.

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Product designer with a love for complex problems & data. Everything I post on Medium is a copy — the originals are on my own website: https://www.vea.re