diff --git a/src/material/badge/_badge-theme.scss b/src/material/badge/_badge-theme.scss
index c55c73169968..5bd2ed9dc3e0 100644
--- a/src/material/badge/_badge-theme.scss
+++ b/src/material/badge/_badge-theme.scss
@@ -1,15 +1,16 @@
+// This contains all of the styles for the badge
+// rather than just the color/theme because of
+// no style sheet support for directives.
 @use 'sass:color';
 @use 'sass:map';
+@use 'sass:meta';
 @use 'sass:math';
 @use '@angular/cdk';
 
 @use '../core/theming/theming';
 @use '../core/typography/typography';
-@use '../core/tokens/m2/mat/badge' as tokens-mat-badge;
-@use '../core/tokens/token-utils';
-@use '../core/style/sass-utils';
+@use '../core/typography/typography-utils';
 
-// TODO(crisbeto): some of these variables aren't used anymore and should be deleted.
 $font-size: 12px;
 $font-weight: 600;
 $default-size: 22px !default;
@@ -17,71 +18,79 @@ $small-size: $default-size - 6;
 $large-size: $default-size + 6;
 $_badge-structure-emitted: false !default;
 
-// Internally there are some builds that throw an error if they can't figure out the values
-// of CSS variables during compliation. This flag temporarily enables fallbacks for these builds.
-// Eventually we should clean them up.
-$_emit-fallback-vars: true;
-
 // Mixin for building offset given different sizes
-@mixin _badge-size($size, $font-size-token) {
+@mixin _badge-size($size) {
   // This mixin isn't used in the context of a theme so we can disable the ampersand check.
   // stylelint-disable material/no-ampersand-beyond-selector-start
   .mat-badge-content {
     width: $size;
     height: $size;
     line-height: $size;
-
-    @if ($font-size-token) {
-      @include token-utils.use-tokens(tokens-mat-badge.$prefix,
-        tokens-mat-badge.get-token-slots()) {
-        @include token-utils.create-token-slot(font-size, $font-size-token, $_emit-fallback-vars);
-      }
-    }
   }
 
-  &.mat-badge-above .mat-badge-content {
-    top: math.div(-$size, 2);
+  &.mat-badge-above {
+    .mat-badge-content {
+      top: math.div(-$size, 2);
+    }
   }
 
-  &.mat-badge-below .mat-badge-content {
-    bottom: math.div(-$size, 2);
+  &.mat-badge-below {
+    .mat-badge-content {
+      bottom: math.div(-$size, 2);
+    }
   }
 
-  &.mat-badge-before .mat-badge-content {
-    left: -$size;
+  &.mat-badge-before {
+    .mat-badge-content {
+      left: -$size;
+    }
   }
 
-  [dir='rtl'] &.mat-badge-before .mat-badge-content {
-    left: auto;
-    right: -$size;
+  [dir='rtl'] &.mat-badge-before {
+    .mat-badge-content {
+      left: auto;
+      right: -$size;
+    }
   }
 
-  &.mat-badge-after .mat-badge-content {
-    right: -$size;
+  &.mat-badge-after {
+    .mat-badge-content {
+      right: -$size;
+    }
   }
 
-  [dir='rtl'] &.mat-badge-after .mat-badge-content {
-    right: auto;
-    left: -$size;
+  [dir='rtl'] &.mat-badge-after {
+    .mat-badge-content {
+      right: auto;
+      left: -$size;
+    }
   }
 
   &.mat-badge-overlap {
-    &.mat-badge-before .mat-badge-content {
-      left: math.div(-$size, 2);
+    &.mat-badge-before {
+      .mat-badge-content {
+        left: math.div(-$size, 2);
+      }
     }
 
-    [dir='rtl'] &.mat-badge-before .mat-badge-content {
-      left: auto;
-      right: math.div(-$size, 2);
+    [dir='rtl'] &.mat-badge-before {
+      .mat-badge-content {
+        left: auto;
+        right: math.div(-$size, 2);
+      }
     }
 
-    &.mat-badge-after .mat-badge-content {
-      right: math.div(-$size, 2);
+    &.mat-badge-after {
+      .mat-badge-content {
+        right: math.div(-$size, 2);
+      }
     }
 
-    [dir='rtl'] &.mat-badge-after .mat-badge-content {
-      right: auto;
-      left: math.div(-$size, 2);
+    [dir='rtl'] &.mat-badge-after {
+      .mat-badge-content {
+        right: auto;
+        left: math.div(-$size, 2);
+      }
     }
   }
   // stylelint-enable
@@ -92,13 +101,19 @@ $_emit-fallback-vars: true;
 @mixin _badge-structure {
   .mat-badge {
     position: relative;
+  }
 
-    // The badge should make sure its host is overflow visible so that the badge content
-    // can be rendered outside of the element. Some components such as <mat-icon> explicitly
-    // style `overflow: hidden` so this requires extra specificity so that it does not
-    // depend on style load order.
-    &.mat-badge {
-      overflow: visible;
+  // The badge should make sure its host is overflow visible so that the badge content
+  // can be rendered outside of the element. Some components such as <mat-icon> explicitly
+  // style `overflow: hidden` so this requires extra specificity so that it does not
+  // depend on style load order.
+  .mat-badge.mat-badge {
+    overflow: visible;
+  }
+
+  .mat-badge-hidden {
+    .mat-badge-content {
+      display: none;
     }
   }
 
@@ -113,30 +128,6 @@ $_emit-fallback-vars: true;
     white-space: nowrap;
     text-overflow: ellipsis;
     pointer-events: none;
-
-    @include token-utils.use-tokens(tokens-mat-badge.$prefix, tokens-mat-badge.get-token-slots()) {
-      @include token-utils.create-token-slot(background-color, background-color);
-      @include token-utils.create-token-slot(color, text-color);
-      @include token-utils.create-token-slot(font-family, text-font, $_emit-fallback-vars);
-      @include token-utils.create-token-slot(font-size, text-size, $_emit-fallback-vars);
-      @include token-utils.create-token-slot(font-weight, text-weight, $_emit-fallback-vars);
-    }
-
-    @include cdk.high-contrast(active, off) {
-      outline: solid 1px;
-      border-radius: 0;
-    }
-  }
-
-  .mat-badge-disabled .mat-badge-content {
-    @include token-utils.use-tokens(tokens-mat-badge.$prefix, tokens-mat-badge.get-token-slots()) {
-      @include token-utils.create-token-slot(background-color, disabled-state-background-color);
-      @include token-utils.create-token-slot(color, disabled-state-text-color);
-    }
-  }
-
-  .mat-badge-hidden .mat-badge-content {
-    display: none;
   }
 
   .ng-animate-disabled .mat-badge-content,
@@ -152,15 +143,15 @@ $_emit-fallback-vars: true;
   }
 
   .mat-badge-small {
-    @include _badge-size($small-size, small-size-text-size);
+    @include _badge-size($small-size);
   }
 
   .mat-badge-medium {
-    @include _badge-size($default-size, null);
+    @include _badge-size($default-size);
   }
 
   .mat-badge-large {
-    @include _badge-size($large-size, large-size-text-size);
+    @include _badge-size($large-size);
   }
 }
 
@@ -168,30 +159,73 @@ $_emit-fallback-vars: true;
   $config: theming.get-color-config($config-or-theme);
   $accent: map.get($config, accent);
   $warn: map.get($config, warn);
+  $primary: map.get($config, primary);
+  $background: map.get($config, background);
+  $foreground: map.get($config, foreground);
 
-  @include sass-utils.current-selector-or-root() {
-    @include token-utils.create-token-values(tokens-mat-badge.$prefix,
-      tokens-mat-badge.get-color-tokens($config));
+  .mat-badge-content {
+    color: theming.get-color-from-palette($primary, default-contrast);
+    background: theming.get-color-from-palette($primary);
+
+    @include cdk.high-contrast(active, off) {
+      outline: solid 1px;
+      border-radius: 0;
+    }
   }
 
   .mat-badge-accent {
-    @include token-utils.create-token-values(tokens-mat-badge.$prefix,
-      tokens-mat-badge.private-get-color-palette-color-tokens($accent));
+    .mat-badge-content {
+      background: theming.get-color-from-palette($accent);
+      color: theming.get-color-from-palette($accent, default-contrast);
+    }
   }
 
   .mat-badge-warn {
-    @include token-utils.create-token-values(tokens-mat-badge.$prefix,
-      tokens-mat-badge.private-get-color-palette-color-tokens($warn));
+    .mat-badge-content {
+      color: theming.get-color-from-palette($warn, default-contrast);
+      background: theming.get-color-from-palette($warn);
+    }
+  }
+
+  .mat-badge-disabled {
+    .mat-badge-content {
+      $app-background: theming.get-color-from-palette($background, 'background');
+      $badge-color: theming.get-color-from-palette($foreground, disabled-button);
+
+      // The disabled color usually has some kind of opacity, but because the badge is overlayed
+      // on top of something else, it won't look good if it's opaque. If it is a color *type*,
+      // we convert it into a solid color by taking the opacity from the rgba value and using
+      // the value to determine the percentage of the background to put into foreground when
+      // mixing the colors together.
+      @if (meta.type-of($badge-color) == color and meta.type-of($app-background) == color) {
+        $badge-opacity: opacity($badge-color);
+        background: color.mix($app-background, rgba($badge-color, 1), (1 - $badge-opacity) * 100%);
+      }
+      @else {
+        background: $badge-color;
+      }
+
+      color: theming.get-color-from-palette($foreground, disabled-text);
+    }
   }
 }
 
 @mixin typography($config-or-theme) {
   $config: typography.private-typography-to-2014-config(
       theming.get-typography-config($config-or-theme));
+  .mat-badge-content {
+    font-weight: $font-weight;
+    font-size: $font-size;
+    font-family: typography-utils.font-family($config);
+  }
+
+  .mat-badge-small .mat-badge-content {
+    // Set the font size to 75% of the original.
+    font-size: $font-size * 0.75;
+  }
 
-  @include sass-utils.current-selector-or-root() {
-    @include token-utils.create-token-values(tokens-mat-badge.$prefix,
-      tokens-mat-badge.get-typography-tokens($config));
+  .mat-badge-large .mat-badge-content {
+    font-size: $font-size * 2;
   }
 }
 
diff --git a/src/material/core/tokens/m2/mat/_badge.scss b/src/material/core/tokens/m2/mat/_badge.scss
deleted file mode 100644
index 60fdd6d95043..000000000000
--- a/src/material/core/tokens/m2/mat/_badge.scss
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,78 +0,0 @@
-@use 'sass:meta';
-@use 'sass:map';
-@use 'sass:color';
-@use '../../token-utils';
-@use '../../../typography/typography-utils';
-@use '../../../theming/theming';
-@use '../../../style/sass-utils';
-
-// The prefix used to generate the fully qualified name for tokens in this file.
-$prefix: (mat, badge);
-
-// Tokens that can't be configured through Angular Material's current theming API,
-// but may be in a future version of the theming API.
-@function get-unthemable-tokens() {
-  @return ();
-}
-
-// Tokens that can be configured through Angular Material's color theming API.
-@function get-color-tokens($config) {
-  $foreground: map.get($config, foreground);
-  $background: map.get($config, background);
-  $primary-color-tokens: private-get-color-palette-color-tokens(map.get($config, primary));
-  $app-background: theming.get-color-from-palette($background, 'background');
-  $disabled-background: theming.get-color-from-palette($foreground, disabled-button);
-
-  // The disabled color usually has some kind of opacity, but because the badge is overlayed
-  // on top of something else, it won't look good if it's opaque. If it is a color *type*,
-  // we convert it into a solid color by taking the opacity from the rgba value and using
-  // the value to determine the percentage of the background to put into foreground when
-  // mixing the colors together.
-  @if (meta.type-of($disabled-background) == color and meta.type-of($app-background) == color) {
-    $badge-opacity: opacity($disabled-background);
-    $disabled-background: color.mix($app-background,
-      rgba($disabled-background, 1), (1 - $badge-opacity) * 100%);
-  }
-
-  @return map.merge($primary-color-tokens, (
-    disabled-state-background-color: $disabled-background,
-    disabled-state-text-color: theming.get-color-from-palette($foreground, disabled-text),
-  ));
-}
-
-// Generates the tokens used to theme the badge based on a palette.
-@function private-get-color-palette-color-tokens($palette) {
-  @return (
-    background-color: theming.get-color-from-palette($palette),
-    text-color: theming.get-color-from-palette($palette, default-contrast),
-  );
-}
-
-// Tokens that can be configured through Angular Material's typography theming API.
-@function get-typography-tokens($config) {
-  $base-size: 12px;
-
-  @return (
-    text-font: typography-utils.font-family($config),
-    text-size: $base-size,
-    text-weight: 600,
-    small-size-text-size: $base-size * 0.75,
-    large-size-text-size: $base-size * 2,
-  );
-}
-
-// Tokens that can be configured through Angular Material's density theming API.
-@function get-density-tokens($config) {
-  @return ();
-}
-
-// Combines the tokens generated by the above functions into a single map with placeholder values.
-// This is used to create token slots.
-@function get-token-slots() {
-  @return sass-utils.deep-merge-all(
-      get-unthemable-tokens(),
-      get-color-tokens(token-utils.$placeholder-color-config),
-      get-typography-tokens(token-utils.$placeholder-typography-config),
-      get-density-tokens(token-utils.$placeholder-density-config)
-  );
-}