One stylesheet, three brands: white-labeling at scale
When our second enterprise customer asked for their own colors, fonts, and radii, we had two options: fork the CSS or make theming a first-class feature. We chose the hard one — here is everything we learned.
Maria Kim
Head of Design Engineering
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