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Design Kernel

A design-system workbench for shaping coordinated light and dark themes, validating contrast, refining tokens, and exporting production-ready CSS.

Design Kernel workbench showing live tokens and a product dashboard preview.
Design Kernel / Platform previewsLocal-first Design System Studio

What I built

Design Kernel turns a small set of creative foundations into a complete, portable design system. Designers can explore distinct visual presets, tune color, typography, density, roundness, contrast, and elevation, inspect every generated token, preview both themes in a realistic product dashboard, save local snapshots, share versioned configurations, and export deterministic CSS with WCAG AA contrast enforcement.

Live contrast enforcement
AA
Portable design-token exports
CSS

Tools behind Design Kernel

9 tools

  1. Nuxt
  2. Vue
  3. TypeScript
  4. Pinia
  5. Vuestic UI
  6. SCSS
  7. LocalStorage
  8. WCAG
  9. Vitest