The Secret Science of Perfect Spacing 

FINALLY SOMEONE THAT DOESN'T THINK I'M CRAZY WHEN I TALK ABOUT THIS STUFF

kde devs needs to watch this

I'm impressed. The Spacing Guild is a lot more friendly and approachable than I expected.

A video nobody asked for, but everyone is grateful for👏

These are all things I have been doing for years, intuitively. My secret? A certain kind of spatio-visual OCD. NOT self-diagnosed. But to see you so thoroughly break down what I'm doing without thinking...man...I can't believe how brilliant your mind is. It's one thing to just quickly get your work done and doing it well. But it is a whole other thing to be able to explain the deep logic, WITH visuals and animation, behind those decisions.

This may be the most clear and consistent video tutorials for graphic design I have seen. Please create a video about using text sizing and colour value in hierarchy. Thank you for putting out great content! 😀

I am actually surprised at how much I learned from this random video on my home page.

ONLY FIFTH VIDEO IN THE CHANNELL!!?? The quality felt like you’ve produced at least hundred of them!

"Body text go brrrrr" got me good. Fantastic watch, btw.

Studying Coded Design. Always struggled to understand why things worked. This was such a great simple explanation and makes so much sense to me. No more eyeballing. 🙌🏻

i was surprised by the level of excellence and quality. definitely underrated

Summary: 1) The more related the elements the closer they should be. 2) All spacing values used should be from a small set of exponentially increasing values. 3) For an even-looking spacing put the top left corner of an element on a 45 deg line meeting the top left corner of its container.

As a self-taught graphic and web designer, I got annoyed pretty early on with how fonts have a random bounding box, sometimes _WAY_ bigger than the largest letters (they seem to be spaced based on the largest symbol present in the font). So I got in the habit of adding fixed padding to left/right/bottom and then eyeball the top padding. Really annoying that there's not most consistency in this.

This video came up, I had a spare 10 minutes and loved it by the 3rd minute, can’t wait to see more and more of these and going into depth around certain areas. I have a refactoring UI book, and it’s really good, but the way yours animates and really dives in, shows a different perspective, the live demo was amazing too.

I am not even remotely in your industry or in need of your services or solutions. But MAN! Was that an satisfying video to watch. Loved it!❤

Love the story and the smooth animation! Thanks!

im a highschool student who's been considering taking up ui design when im older. all of the things he said in the video clicked with me and i absolutely love the subject matter at hand here. im excited to learn more stuff if i do eventually decide on making this my final career path!

you deserve a lot of subs. such a comprehensive video. thank you!

This was such a great video! Thanks guys and thank you Duff for being the first bassists playing I really fell in love with!

Excellent quality and depth of research. Instant sub.

As someone trying to get a better feel for design I really appreciate this, and the visualization and animations for the different spacing were beautifully executed. Beautiful video!

I'm a developer and I just use the values provided by our designers without much thought, but this video puts into perspective how much thinking has to be done on the design side as well, great stuff

That's unbelievable well explained. Thank you so much!

idk if the channel is gone stay too small forever if you keep putting out bangers like this one

I don't know why I was recommended this, but I'm glad I did. This was super interesting and clear. I am currently designing a very small mockup of a box with a title, an image, etc. to present a digital product, and this comes in very handy. Thanks for sharing!

simple. elegant. memorable. brilliant. thank you

Garret you absolutely smashed it with this video. I can't wait to learn LiftKit!

Getting that satisfying spacing is the exact reason I use monospaced in documents, single heading and just use three character sizes which are multiples of 4.

I was a graphic designer and finished artist in the 70s + 80s. My colleagues and myself instinctively understood spacing relationships and appreciated typography. We marked up hard copy and with a surgeon’s knife cut and pasted galleys into precise positions. It’s been the most frustrating time in the transition from print to digital web editing because nurds controlled development without the slightest acknowledgement of design and designers. It’s only today seeing this video tutorial that I feel the nitty gritty aspect of design is being recognized to the point where print has been for centuries or at least since off-set printing. Now design is being thrust upon developers to code. But the system is a mess. We’re coming up to half a century of developers’ arrogance and oppression of design and designers. It’s a travesty that designers were not partnered from the get go. I dare say that the international web code is fundamentally flawed and at odds with the visual aspirations of good and efficient screen communications: design.

The editing is so satisfying, great video !!!

I don’t do anything on the web yet, but this video was pretty useful for my work with printed text documents. Got too sucked into the leading and the sequences, and was wondering why it felt off. Your insights on the semantic relationships was super helpful. Thank you.

best video I've watched about spacing and thats surprising how much people don't talk about it

Awesome content, and I'm just 3 minutes in. Keep it up with the good work. Thank you very much!

What a great video. Hope to see more like this. Subscribed!

Best sales pitch ever! Fantastic video Thank you!

Great video! Will be in touch in the coming months 👍

I work often as book/article formatter, and this video just hits the spot....

Great video. But I preferred the left box. The heading is too close to the top on the right one when you do the comparison.

This is absolute amazing explanation.

excellent video on spacing , really good material and explanations

this video and explanation are golden! thanky you :)

As a frontend developer trying to learn a bit about web design to make sites that sucks less I appreciate your video, Thanks! I always have problems with the line height and the spacing from the border to the text first pixels.

I had to watch some complementary videos first like about EM, REM, and why use them instead of pixels, what is the golden ratio, etc to understand this video. But it was worth it, simplified so much and gave me a permanent guideline to work with. Thanks.

Love this!! It's so intuitive and informative. I want to learn more!

One of the best videos on web design I have watched

Underrated channel, just thinking of improving my design lately and this video got recommended to me, nice.

Awesome vid. I didn't realize I was watching a video for webflow, and this cemented some of the learnings I've made over the years. Cloneable looks great, will try it.

Nice explanation, thanks. I'd never realised how useful treating the bottom margin as the spacer is. I considerably improved the appearance of some basic text markup with some css rules applying the ideas I learned here very quickly. I think I'll delve a little deeper too as the gains will be worth the effort.

I very nearly avoided this video just because of the unnecessary 2nd part of your title (“I Promise This Is Interesting”). Just some feedback! Otherwise very interesting video ;)

I think the space between heading and sub-heading needs to be greater than the space between sub-heading and paragraph simply because sub-heading and paragrath have a stronger relationship than heading and sub-heading - other than that, brilliant vid!

I learnt so much from this! Great video

Interesting. FINALLY someone here explains what I've been struggling with for a long time . Thanks alot

Such a high quality video! good work

Loved your video, got the best explanation and examples! You earned a sub

I don´t know why this video appear on my feed, but I´m so greatful for it. Spacing is the hardest thing to do when it comes to do any in design related. I´m just talking as an amateur gal who has to do ton of presentations and infographs. Very helpful!!!

I would appreciate a longer version of thisb

such a good quality video!!! keep it up

This is amazing 😮

I love this!

Appreciate this video so much

this was so helpful, nice vid!

As an engineer who often does frontend this is gold

The quality of this video is just ✨

Please please please make a full, straight to the point, no fluff course on all this. This is incredibly interesting. As a software engineer, I would love to have this knowledge for when working on my side projects and side hustles. Thanks.

such incredible value... subbed

Wow, what an awesome video! Well done! Must have been a lot of work to animate all that so nicely.

Yo this was helpful af and i love your rapndom ramblings

It would be great if you could condense all this information into a single page cheat sheet to cross reference while designing! Thanks for the video :)

My course and field has very little to do with this random video but I’m gonna implement some of the stuff I’ve learned here on our project. Thanks 😁

I live for this kind of stuff. Make a discord for other designers to talk about niche stuff.

Great video! The main problem is actually the line-height of textual elements together with dynamic content. Imagine I'm creating a simple reusable sections with a heading, subheading and text. The user can type whatever they want. Even capitalize everything. That will make it impossible to set a fixed margin or padding. You probably end up with an extra settings, which you don't want, because the user often doesn't understand this type of spacing principle...

very high quality presentation

this is pure gold 🏆

Can't believe you have a few subscribers. This video has a great vibe! I knew spacing was essential, but I've only bothered with typescale. I will now bother with spacing as well for aesthetics✨😂.

Damn we need more content like this

Just beautiful! Just wanted to say hi! I hope and wish that you make more such great videos and get all appreciation you deserve.

That body text really did go brrrr

This content is incredible!

just subscribed, keep it up please, many thanks to you

I liked the left one better than the right one; it felt more balanced. Is it just me being CSS-brained?

Wow the production quality for the size of your channel is insane.

Backend devs are probably really confused right now

Awesome video, I've been going through the motions of learning a design system and each category (Color, spacing, typography, etc). feels like a rabbit hole that has no end lol. Your explanations were clear and the animations helped further my understanding a lot, thank you!

I really liked the friendship model of spacing increments. Instead of xs, sm, md… increments, I’ve heard them called “BFF4L” “BBF” “Friends” “acquaintance” etc. Kinda fun to think of all the elements knowing each other. Anyway, I started a new job and had to wing it on my own. So glad I found this! Might just copy and rename things with the buddy system ;)

Love this video 🎉

Yoo this is gold.

Wow, great video, I thought you would have had way more subs. You definitely deserve more.

Amazing video, as a UX designer I’ve rarely seen such a good explanation for spacing! The thing I’m always confused with is the different spacing settings in Adobe Xd / Figma around text boxes. Does anyone know if the spacing around these is equal to paragraphs (css) with 0 padding?

This seems to be your first video that's animated and explained this way, I really like it! Needs more subs

So youtube has decided to promote this. Job Well done.

this video is brilliantly animated and informative . I learnt a lot and subbed, thank you. also, what software did you use to make these animations.

I guess it kinda bears testament to how beauty lies in the beholder’s eye with how I (and a few other comments) actually felt that the left example 1 was better centred/spaced. I don’t think it’s as universal as how the video makes it out to be

Lovely!!!!!!!

❤ Great video

Love the content ❤

Swear to God man, this is the 7th time I play this video and I fell asleep 7 times. Not a joke, I always try to watch this when I go to bed... and it helps me with sleeping. So.. thanks

I am so confused how I got here (I am anything but a designer), but I still really liked it.

I wish I found you sooner. Much love

The Gods of RU-vid have answered my prayers! Thank you for this video.

Quite the polished content.