docs(material/theming): add tokens section to our docs
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Description
### Documentation Feedback
Add documentation to material.angular.io to list the tokens that our components expose.
#### Design
There are still some open questions that the team should discuss.
- Should we write a description for each token?
- Critiques:
- A unique description for every token may be too much data thrown at the user which the user might mentally filter out when looking through our docs.
- Many tokens are self-explanatory. It seems silly to write `"selected-checkmark-color": The color of the checkmark when the checkbox is selected`.
- A more useful approach may be to provide a subsection that explains terminology that is obscure to most users. For example, the section could describe the following:
- What `state-layer` commonly refers to.
- Listing the different states - `active`, `pressed`, etc. Material has [a page dedicated to this](https://m2.material.io/design/interaction/states.html#usage) we could also link to.
- Where should this token list live?
- IMO under the "API" tab for each component makes the most sense.
This design satisfies the following pain point for our users:
- CSS variables are difficult to identify / discover.
### Affected documentation page
https://material.angular.io/components/autocomplete/api
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start with the affected Autocomplete API documentation page at material.angular.io/components/autocomplete/api and review how component API documentation is organized. Resolve the open questions about token descriptions, terminology, and placement with the team. Done means the exposed CSS tokens are discoverable in the appropriate component API documentation, with agreed terminology guidance.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- angular, typescript
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100