#31 – Nina Kovacs on Teaching theme.json to Designers

Nina Kovacs teaches spacing scales to people who think in Figma. No shame, no PHP first, and a lot of named tokens.

by Alex Harlan·April 8, 2026·with Nina Kovacs

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Nina does not start with PHP. She starts with eight spacing names and a color palette that can survive a dark variation.

We talk about the moment a designer realizes theme.json is a contract, not a dump of CSS variables.

If your handoff is still a screenshot, this episode is the grown-up version of that PDF.

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