New CSS properties for analyzer: (border radius, font-weight, letter-spacing, etc)

[KenjiCrosland]

Hey @bartveneman I'm working on a project that makes use of the css-analyzer to determine if the designs on a particular page are in alignment with our design tokens.

I noticed a new property for "line-height" was added about a week ago. There are a couple more properties I'd like to add to the analyzer if possible. Would it be possible to raise some PRs to include these properties?

Thanks,

Kenji

[bartveneman]

Makes sense to have some of those in here as well, but I wonder to what point they'll be useful as 'standalone' reports: the point of a design system is the combination of font-families/sizes/weights/line-heights. The individual tokens themselves don't add much value.
I wonder if you expect these results to end up on projectwallace.com, or do you have another use case in mind for them?

[KenjiCrosland]

I've been using the raw data from the tool and comparing them against our token values in the design system showing a number of "incorrect" values vs. "correct" values -- a report card of sorts. This gives us a good idea of the level of adoption of our tokens for a given page of our site. I'm not using projectwallace.com for this.

I think you're right that font-weight and letter-spacing are less valuable because they are often tied to line-height, font-family and font-size which you already have. Generally if those properties match up then the others will too.

So I suppose the one I'd like to add is border-radius.

You can see our full token list here: https://rei.github.io/rei-cedar-docs/tokens/all-tokens/

Maybe spacing and inset (margin/padding values) but that may generate too much noise.

[bartveneman]

That's a nice looking system! I'll take your suggestions in consideration.

Judging by your use case I should breathe in some new life into Constyble. Second time this week where it could be really useful. https://github.com/projectwallace/constyble

[bartveneman]

Note to self: need to check for the following properties:

With vendor prefix check:

• border-radius
• border-bottom-left-radius
• border-bottom-right-radius
• border-top-left-radius
• border-top-right-radius

Without vendor prefix check

• border-end-end-radius
• border-end-start-radius
• border-start-end-radius
• border-start-start-radius

[bartveneman]

@KenjiCrosland working on this issue, but I wonder how useful it is to cram everything under an single property. Any of these values could be set from a shorthand (border-radius), but also as one of the individual properties. Auditing this list would be pretty difficult, I imagine.

These are some examples from real-life websites:

{
        "0": 69,
        "6px": 109,
        "0 0 6px 6px": 2,
        ".5em": 1,
        "1px": 1,
        "6px 6px 0 0": 2,
        "4px": 46,
        "8px": 45,
        "50%": 3
}

{
        "0": 67,
        "8px": 9,
        "11px": 213,
        "2px": 22,
        ".125rem": 2,
        "6px": 4,
        "5.5px": 4,
        "4px": 4,
        "50%": 22,
        "0 11px 11px 0": 10,
        "20px": 2,
        "0 100% 100% 0": 2,
        "50% 0 0 50%": 2,
        "11px 11px 0 0": 16,
        "0 0 11px 11px": 2,
        "3px": 8,
        "22px": 4,
        ".5em": 4,
        "5px": 4,
        ".2em": 4,
        "100%": 2,
        ".3em": 2,
        "11px 0 0 0": 4,
        "0 11px 0 0": 4,
        "1.125em": 2,
        "1.125em 0 0 1.125em": 2,
        "11px 0 0 11px": 14,
        "6px 0 0 6px": 2,
        "0 6px 6px 0": 2,
        "0 1em 1em 0": 2
      }

[bartveneman]

Brought some new life into the border-radius stuff because nowadays we have itemsPerContext if we opt into that, meaning that we can keep track of the property that set a particular radius.