diff --git a/.npmignore b/.npmignore
index b9fe8d4..bb8d9c9 100644
--- a/.npmignore
+++ b/.npmignore
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 .github
+.vscode
 *.css
diff --git a/.vscode/settings.json b/.vscode/settings.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b54787b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.vscode/settings.json
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+{
+  "workbench.colorCustomizations": {
+    // "activityBar.background" : "#507791",
+    // "activityBar.foreground" : "#f9f9f9",
+    "titleBar.activeBackground" : "#4f758e",
+    "titleBar.activeForeground" : "#f9f9f9",
+    "titleBar.inactiveBackground" : "#44657A",
+    "titleBar.inactiveForeground" : "#f9f9f9",
+    "statusBar.background" : "#4f758e",
+    "statusBar.foreground" : "#f9f9f9"
+  }
+}
diff --git a/.vscode/snippets.code-snippets b/.vscode/snippets.code-snippets
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..36186be
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.vscode/snippets.code-snippets
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+{
+  "CSS Variable Fallback": {
+    "description": "De-abstracts variables from their colloquial names into their programmatic goodness and provides a fallback to the CSS Variables.",
+    "scope": "scss",
+    "prefix": "v",
+    "body": [
+      "@include v($1, $2);"
+    ]
+  }
+}
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 83d2f90..a8498c2 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@chrisburnell/bowhead",
-  "version": "0.1.8",
+  "version": "0.1.9",
   "description": "Memorable and maintainable design tokens in SCSS",
   "main": "bowhead.scss",
   "scripts": {
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
     "url": "https://github.com/chrisburnell/bowhead/issues"
   },
   "keywords": [
+    "design tokens",
     "scss"
   ]
 }
diff --git a/src/_config.scss b/src/_config.scss
index 09869d9..294e4a4 100644
--- a/src/_config.scss
+++ b/src/_config.scss
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+// Decides whether or not use the CSS Variable or raw value when calling the
+// @v function.
+$bowhead-variable-as-default: true !default;
+
 // Decides whether or not to show a fallback value for the CSS Variable.
 $bowhead-show-fallback: true !default;
 
diff --git a/src/_functions.scss b/src/_functions.scss
index 42ef65f..9f3b653 100644
--- a/src/_functions.scss
+++ b/src/_functions.scss
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 ///
 /// @return Associated CSS Variable or SCSS value
 ///
-@function v($property, $value: default, $fallback: false) {
+@function v($property, $value: default, $fallback: not $bowhead-variable-as-default) {
     $generic-values: auto, inherit, initial, none, revert, unset, 0, 1, 100%, currentColor;
     @if (index($generic-values, $value)) {
         @return $value;
diff --git a/src/_mixins.scss b/src/_mixins.scss
index 0b217db..7829c13 100644
--- a/src/_mixins.scss
+++ b/src/_mixins.scss
@@ -23,5 +23,5 @@
     @if $show-fallback {
         #{$property}: v($property, $value, true);
     }
-    #{$property}: v($property, $value);
+    #{$property}: v($property, $value, false);
 }