If one of the things you wanted to "take away" was page margin, then sure. Even at a time when the physical costs of production were far, far more significant

If one of the things you wanted to "take away" was page margin, then sure. Even at a time when the physical costs of production were far, far more significant than today's, people thought it was important to give a text block some air (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canons_of_page_construction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canons_of_page_construction) so this isn't a frivolous innovation. IMO doesn't have to be a big shift or complicate things; body { margin-left: 2vw; } here would do a lot. Hell, you could toss it as an inline declaration on the body element itself if you're morally opposed to style tags.