# Harvey — Rebuilding Harvey's Design System From the Ground Up

- Company: Harvey (harvey.ai)
- Announced: 2026-01-16T14:00:00+00:00
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- Group: routine
- Source: https://www.harvey.ai/blog/rebuilding-harveys-design-system-from-the-ground-up
- Record: https://forck.live/items/17624-rebuilding-harvey-s-design-system-from-the-ground-up
- Subject: Harvey

Harvey Engineering, Product, and Design teams rebuilt their design system to address color and component sprawl. They established a semantic token architecture, automated token maintenance via a GitHub Action syncing Figma variables to code, and recalibrated the color palette for WCAG contrast in light and dark modes. The new system aligns naming conventions between design and code and is intended to scale without accumulating technical debt.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://www.harvey.ai/blog/rebuilding-harveys-design-system-from-the-ground-up:

> We decided to rebuild the system based on three core principles. First, we needed designers and engineers to speak the same language. ... Second, we needed to shift from naming things based on appearance to naming them based on intent. ... Third, we needed to future-proof the architecture.

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