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 # Changelog
 
+## December 2020
+### Primer Web
+#### ✨ New features
+
+#### Color modes
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+![example of color modes implementation in alert component showing all of the color values matching success alert variables](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/10384315/101843649-88bb9b80-3aff-11eb-8ddc-72e19ac791eb.png)
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+Support for GitHub's new color modes has been implemented into the individual components to correspond to the functional color values supplied by [primer/primitives](https://github.com/primer/primitives).
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+To use be sure to turn on the [`Primer Primitives: light beta` library](https://www.figma.com/file/9vhDNyQpOono1vgi0qSViZ/Primer-Primitives-light-beta) as that is now the source of truth for all component color styling. 
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+
+#### Variants
+
+![example of variants with the primary button showing all of the variant options in a dropdown](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/10384315/101843779-d1735480-3aff-11eb-9d1d-526c5d23f11f.png)
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+Components have been updated to use the new variants feature in Figma. 
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+- Flash alerts
+- Toasts
+- Avatars
+- Buttons
+- Branch name
+- Blankslate
+- Breadcrumbs
+- Contribution graph
+- Cursors
+- Forms
+- Labels
+- Markdown
+- Navigation
+- Pagehead
+- Popovers
+- Select menus
+- Subhead
+- Text contents
+
 ## November 2020
 
 #### ✨New features