Your Figma Color System Is Manual. Here's Why...

The Reality No One Talks About You start a project with three brand colors. Six months later, your Figma file has 42 different shades of "slightly different light grey" and your accessibility contrast ratios are a disaster. Building a color system isn't about picking hex codes. It's about logic, scalability, and accessibility from day one. But why is the process still entirely manual? Three Mistakes That Break Every Color System 1. The Eyeball Method Picking shades by moving the cursor until it