How To Build Your Own Design System With Nested + Stacked Presets In Divi 5
Design systems fail either because they don’t account for every possibility or because they become too complicated to manage. A standard website needs styles for headings, body text, buttons, and containers (to name a few). Multiply those across light and dark backgrounds, different sizes, and other use cases, and you end up managing hundreds of CSS classes/presets that overlap, conflict, and become impossible to maintain. Stacked and Nested Presets in Divi 5 help solve this problem by separating concerns. Instead of creating a preset for every possible combination (H1 Dark Bold, H1 Light Bold, H1 Dark Normal, H1 Light Normal, and so on), you create modular styles that stack together. This tutorial builds a complete design system from scratch, then applies it to a homepage with four unique sections. You will create Design Variables for spacing, typography, and colors, build Option Group Presets for layouts and styling, and nest those Option Group Presets inside Element Presets for...