Metaphoric method and semantic gradients
Colors squeezed onto the palette; type, heavy with ink; moving in rhythmic vertical flow.
In a continuation of learning new words like sitzprobe and wandelprobe or tsundoku and shinrin-yoku, I have another to add to the list. Well; more of a phrase: semantic gradients.
One of those easy–hard things to do is giving something a name, especially in a collaborative environment. In design systems, there are countless articles talking about how to name tokens & variables, then how to name their categorical groupings, continuing to move on up the complexity ladder.
Constants
One of the foundational bits of naming things are the constants, also known as primitives or tokens. I like constants better, as it’s clearer that these are the values that should not change—and if they do, everything else needs to cascade accordingly.
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