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Tailwind CSS 4 & Design Tokens Field Guide
Component Abstractions, Container Queries, OKLCH Palettes & Micro-Interactions
Format: PDF Guide + Figma Tokens Sync
Length: 56 Pages
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Guide Overview
Level up from basic utility classes to enterprise-grade design system architecture with Tailwind CSS 4. Master container queries (@container), CSS variables integration, modern OKLCH color spaces for perceptually uniform palettes, dark mode toggling without flash of unstyled content, and high-performance micro-interactions.
What's Inside This Guide
Tailwind 4 native CSS-first configuration and dynamic imports
Container queries: Writing truly responsive components that adapt to parent width
OKLCH color system: Consistent perceptual lightness across hues
Building bulletproof polymorphic UI components (Button, Modal, Dropdown)
Fluid typography and clamp() math directly within Tailwind classes
Complete Table of Contents
- Migrating from tailwind.config.js to @theme directives
- Declaring semantic design tokens in raw CSS
- Zero-runtime utility compilation
- Custom variants and modifier stacks
- Declaring @container parents
- Cards that adapt between list and grid views
- Responsive tables that fold into stacked cards
- Overcoming media query limitations
- Why sRGB and HSL fail contrast guarantees
- Perceptually uniform color shades (50 to 950)
- Dynamic theme switching with CSS variables
- Automated WCAG AA contrast ratio testing
- Focus-visible rings and keyboard navigation
- Accessible modal dialog backdrops and focus trap
- Smooth accordion height animations with grid-template-rows
- Tooltip micro-interactions with CSS anchor positioning
- Purging dead utilities in large codebases
- Critical CSS inlining for sub-100ms FCP
- Combining Tailwind with SVG icon systems
- CI linting with prettier-plugin-tailwindcss
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