diff --git a/res/css/_font-sizes.pcss b/res/css/_font-sizes.pcss
index 528cc3c462..98ebf28af0 100644
--- a/res/css/_font-sizes.pcss
+++ b/res/css/_font-sizes.pcss
@@ -12,31 +12,39 @@ Please see LICENSE files in the repository root for full details.
  * These are defined in `rem` so that they scale with the `font-size` of the root element (which is adjustable via the
  * "Font size" setting). They exist to make the job of converting designs (which tend to be based in pixels) into CSS
  * easier.
+ */
+
+/*
+ * These variables are now *deprecated* and should not be used in new code; instead Compound typographic tokens
+ * should be used. Direct equivalents for these old font size tokens are listed below; where no equivalent exists,
+ * that suggests that the design is using a non-standard font size and should be updated.
  *
+ * In fact, modern Figma designs should actually use a named Typography style such as "Web/font/heading/sm/semibold",
+ * translates directly to `font: var(--cpd-font-heading-sm-semibold)`.
  */
 $font-1px: 0.0625rem;
 $font-8px: 0.5rem;
 $font-9px: 0.5625rem;
 $font-10px: 0.625rem;
 $font-10-4px: 0.6275rem;
-$font-11px: 0.6875rem;
+$font-11px: 0.6875rem; /* Compound equivalent: --cpd-font-size-body-xs */
 $font-12px: 0.75rem;
-$font-13px: 0.8125rem;
+$font-13px: 0.8125rem; /* Compound equivalent: --cpd-font-size-body-sm */
 $font-14px: 0.875rem;
-$font-15px: 0.9375rem;
+$font-15px: 0.9375rem; /* Compound equivalent: --cpd-font-size-body-md */
 $font-16px: 1rem;
-$font-17px: 1.0625rem;
+$font-17px: 1.0625rem; /* Compound equivalent: --cpd-font-size-body-lg */
 $font-18px: 1.125rem;
-$font-20px: 1.25rem;
+$font-20px: 1.25rem; /* Compound equivalent: --cpd-font-size-heading-sm */
 $font-22px: 1.375rem;
 $font-23px: 1.4375rem;
-$font-24px: 1.5rem;
+$font-24px: 1.5rem; /* Compound equivalent: --cpd-font-size-heading-md */
 $font-25px: 1.5625rem;
 $font-26px: 1.625rem;
-$font-28px: 1.75rem;
+$font-28px: 1.75rem; /* Compound equivalent: --cpd-font-size-heading-lg */
 $font-29px: 1.8125rem;
 $font-30px: 1.875rem;
-$font-32px: 2rem;
+$font-32px: 2rem; /* Compound equivalent: --cpd-font-size-heading-xl */
 $font-34px: 2.125rem;
 $font-35px: 2.1875rem;
 $font-39px: 2.4375rem;