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When you standardize on any other number you have to remember it and account for it. For instance if you settle for 2em margins, all you other margin calculati
by makeitdouble 3y ago
When you standardize on any other number you have to remember it and account for it.
For instance if you settle for 2em margins, all you other margin calculations need to remember that 2em value, and you also need to teach all your new coworkers the 2em value. That's dramatically less needed if it's 0.
- wwweston 3y agoRemembering / managing multiple margin values is a conversation that I can definitely relate to having about a design system or custom CSS. For a reset/normalization sheet focused on sane standardized defaults? Seems like we'd be talking about two numbers: whatever vertical margin you want for your block level elements that you'd expect to have margins (most likely 1em) and 0. Where are the other numbers coming from in the context of a reset?
- fyrn_ 3y agoThere's other stuff besides numbers, like box-sizing and display that you uave to remember if you don't reset them.