3px of padding makes all the difference in the world

Re:3px of padding makes all the difference in the world by stared on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @05:24AM (#5779038)

For me, the current version is better. And in general, I don't get the obsession of designers to have text padded as much as possible. I like low padding and small fonts (unless it is put to extreme; but on good sites it never happens, whereas "overpadding" is more than common).

Perhaps it is about density of information.

Perhaps it is that I like to have a very different spacing between two lines of the same paragraphs and two lines with a paragraph break. (So my brain can effortlessly divide it into parts.)

Perhaps... it is just a matter of taste. But I guess I am not the only one.

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Re:3px of padding makes all the difference in the world by obstacle1 on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @05:36AM (#5779057)

I think it's less about padding-for-padding's-sake and more about maintaining symmetry in design. Notice that both the author's changes were fundamentally just restoring symmetry to elements within a box layout.

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Re:3px of padding makes all the difference in the world by stared on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @08:16AM (#5779463)

In this particular case the symmetry makes some sense. But I would rather cut the top (which is wasting a lot of space) than padded the bottom to match the top.

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