Garden Design Tokens

🌱 Garden is the design system by Zendesk

A Tailwind CSS plugin for generating CSS based on the Garden theme object.

Installation

npm install @zendeskgarden/tailwindcss

Usage

Add the plugin to your tailwind.config.js:

// tailwind.config.js
module.exports = {
  plugins: [require('@zendeskgarden/tailwindcss')]
};

Utility Classes

Apply Garden design tokens using Tailwind utility classes.

<img
  class="rounded-full h-8 w-8 border border-mint-500 dark:border-mint-400"
  src="avatar.png"
  alt="Avatar"
/>

Class Composition with @apply

Tailwind provides several PostCSS directives for inserting utility styles into CSS. The @apply directive allows consumers to reference a specific utility value. This enables support for more advanced functionality like CSS modules.

.title {
  @apply text-grey-900;
  @apply dark:text-grey-300;
  @apply text-sm;
  @apply px-4;
  @apply font-light;
}

Configuration

The plugin provides an optional includeBedrock setting which can be used to disable Garden's css-bedrock reset.

// tailwind.config.js
module.exports = {
  plugins: [
    require('@zendeskgarden/tailwindcss')({
      includeBedrock: false // defaults to true
    })
  ]
};

Tooling

The Tailwind CSS IntelliSense VS Code plugin provides autocomplete, syntax highlighting, and linting based on your Tailwind config. It is very helpful as the Garden-provided utilities differ slightly from those shown in the Tailwind documentation.

Contribution

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License

Copyright 2025 Zendesk

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0