The universal color palette

Supporting a global design system at scale.

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In late 2023, Brad Frost proposed the creation of a Global Design System to provide a common library of web UI components for the world to use.

The Global Design System should handle 80% or more of common UI needs, not be prescriptive to any particular aesthetic look/feel, and be accessible, themeable, interoperable…