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That's when you make components

Dev 1 might make a card component with grey text as #999 and Dev 2 might make a footer component with grey text as #888.

Components are locally consistent but not globally consistent.

Or, let’s say you want to change all your grey text to #777, then you have to go back through all your individual components and hope you didn’t miss anything.

You ain’t hardcoding colors inline, you refer to them via “variables” basically, so this situation doesn’t exist: https://tailwindcss.com/docs/customizing-colors

No buddy, text-gray-600 is globally consistent.

So are your own custom defined colors like text-armatav-500.

Use the thing before you dismiss it.

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