Add component and spacing tokens to variables.css

[ryguyk]

This is less a "bug" and more of a feature request, but there is some expected behavior that I did not see.

Bug Report

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What happened

In trying to use the tokens in variables.css (unpkg link), I did not find tokens for web components or web spacing.

https://dsva.slack.com/archives/CBU0KDSB1/p1734455105370889?thread_ts=1733170194.602409&cid=CBU0KDSB1

What I expected to happen

I expected to see all the tokens I would need in order to match VADS components and overall layout.

Reproducing

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We can implement these "by hand", but it'd be nice to stay coupled with the design system so this is less fragile later.

Details

[humancompanion-usds]

Foundation tokens

We need to add some missing design tokens from our Foundational set to variables that we export to other systems:

• Spacing units
• Elevation
• Shape
• Size

Spacing units is the priority for this issue. Engineers should be able to add this to our list of variables quickly.

Component tokens

Then we should move onto components. Form Engine team has prioritized these components for us:

• Accordion
• Alert
• Button
• Radio button
• Search

We had started on defining component-level tokens for va-button. We need to complete that token list and repeat that for the other components. Designers should start on this as soon as possible (and I can assist as needed).

[caw310]

Adding the tokens will be done in #3706. Once that is done, engineers can work on this issue.

[caw310]

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[caw310]

Spacing tokens are available as version 0.18.0 of the CSS library.

We will work on the component tokens but that will be in a future sprint.