When to Use Component Level Tokens/Variables in Figma 

I worked at a large corporation where our only chose was to develop component-level tokens. This approach was essential for effectively managing a vast legacy framework. This is what Goldman Sachs' design system also had to do.

So I have a question on this. Going to try and be as brief/clear as possible. My team has decided that we will need a handful (not a lot) of component level tokens. What’s not clear to me is where you added those bolder colors? Did you first add them to the base collection? What did you name them? Referencing what’s shown, let’s say I need a component level token for a header. I have my (base) hex, my (alias) green-100, and my (mapped) primary. This green-100 is also aliased for all buttons. The component level color goes in the mapped collection as you’ve shown, as ‘primary-header’. But it’s still being aliased? That means that if I go BACK to my (base) hex and change it to blue, everything else that references it (alias and mapped) will also change to blue. But I DONT want that. I want to be able to change the green-100/primary-header separately from the buttons, or anything else that may already reference it. We want a global change for buttons, but a separate global change for headers, although technically they’ll reference the same color green in the css. I hope this is making sense lol. It seems figma doesn’t have the capability to do what I’m describing, referencing 1 color in 2 different ways, so I’m wondering the best workaround to achieve this? Do I simply add an additional green-100 but just name it slightly different?

It is neccery to create component tokens as well because themes. Semantics tokens may make too many duplicated color in light mode but different color in dark depending on contexts

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Nice vid...but don't really agree with the fundamental rational of when to use component tokens. Comp tokens should just feed off your semantic layer so any changes you make are inherited, you don't need to makes changes in both. Comp tokens are there for if specific overrides and to give more granular control, really useful when managing a while label design system