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backlight.dev

Backlight is a collaborative platform designed for front-end teams to build, manage, and ship design systems. It provides an online IDE, version control, visual review tools, and integrations with design tools like Figma, enabling efficient collaboration and consistent development of digital products.

Features
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Must Have

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Centralized Asset Storage

Brand Guideline Editor

Shareable Brand Guide URL

Version Control & Updates

Asset Organization & Search

Other

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Color Palette Definition

Typography Settings

Customizable Sections

Preview Mode

Google & Custom Fonts

Real-time Collaboration

Automated Notifications

Logo Variant Upload

Asset Generation Tools

Browser Extension Access

AI Consistency Checker

Whitelabel Agency Mode

Integration with Design & Dev Workflows

Pricing
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Starter

$0.00 monthly
  • Unlimited users
  • Up to 2 design systems
  • Online IDE and Command-line
  • Instant share
  • GitHub & GitLab integrations
  • Visual review of Pull Requests
  • Markdown, MDJS, MDX2, MDVue, MDsveX and Nunjucks
  • Real-time editing
  • Auto-versioning
  • Community support on Discord
  • 100 Visual regression reports
  • Publish on scope `@backlight-dev`

Pro

$149.00 monthly
  • All Starter features
  • Up to 5 design systems
  • 1000 Visual regression reports
  • Publish to any registry
  • Publish to any scope
  • Publish private packages
  • Export documentation static site
  • Email support

Enterprise

$499.00 monthly
  • All Pro features
  • Unlimited design systems
  • ∞ Visual regression reports
  • Email support with SLA
  • story.to.design included with Backlight. Automatically generate and maintain Figma UI Kits.
Rationale

Backlight is a platform for building and managing design systems, which aligns closely with the concept of brand guideline and asset management. It offers features like centralized storage for design tokens and components (which serve as brand assets), an online editor for documentation (akin to a brand guideline editor), and instant sharing/publishing of the design system (similar to a shareable brand guide URL). While it's more code-centric and focused on design systems for front-end teams, the underlying functionalities for organizing, documenting, and sharing brand-related elements are present. The platform also supports versioning, real-time editing, and various documentation formats, which can be used to define and manage brand guidelines.