The official Open Design System Tailwind CSS Plugin provides the easiest way to have access to your Design System tokens into Tailwind CSS.

module.exports = {
  content: ['./app/**/*.{js,ts,jsx,tsx}', './components/**/*.{js,ts,jsx,tsx}'],
  plugins: [
    require('@opends/tailwind'),
    //...
  ],
}

Instalation

Install the plugin from npm:

npm install -D @opends/tailwind

Then add the plugin to your tailwind.config.js file:

/** @type {import('tailwindcss').Config} */
module.exports = {
  theme: {
    // ...
  },
  plugins: [
    require('@opends/tailwind')({
      designSystemConfig: 'config/open-design-system.json', // optional defaults to root to project.
    }),
    // ...
  ],
}

Basic Usage

Once your open-design-system.json file is loaded all yourt tokens are available as TailwindCSS utilities and CSS variables.

<div class="box">
  <h1 class="text-title text-primary">My amazing title here</h1>
</div>

The Open Design System plugin extends the TailwindCSS configuration to allow users to still keep usage of any TailwindCSS option and being just an extra layer for it.

Colors

All colors are added in a way that they can be used by tailwind internally.

<p class="text-primary">The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.</p>

The aforementioned example assumes you already have a primary color set.

With the example above, you should be able to use out of the box your light and dark version of the primary color.

Typography

<p class="text-body font-body">The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.</p>

The aforementioned example assumes you already have a body typography set.

With the example above, everything that you have defined for your typography should be available under the name of the typography you set in your open-design-system.json and it should set all the properties for you (fontFamily, fontSize, fontWeight, letterSpacing and so on.)

Spacings

<div class="p-big m-small">
  <!-- ... -->
</div>

The aforementioned example assumes you already have a big and small spacing set.

Every place you can specify some spacings in TailwindCSS you should be able to use the tokens you have defined in the open-design-system.json.

For WEB we assume px as for spacing. In case you would like to extend such functionality open an issue for discussion.

Surfaces

<div class="box">
  <!-- ... -->
</div>

The aforementioned example assumes you already have a box surface set.

Surfaces are available as component classes, so you can use already all the configurations you did under a single class. But it also creates css variables using the schema: --surface-{surface-name}-border-radius and it is used for all the properties.

Shadows

<div class="shadow-elevation1">
  <!-- ... -->
</div>

Shadows also extends the current theme and include the shadows (box shadow) availabel for your usage