Why whitespace is a feature

Every page makes an argument about what matters, and whitespace is how it makes it.

Crowd two things together and the reader assumes they belong together. Put room between them and they read as separate thoughts. Layout is grammar.

Measure

A line of text is most comfortable at somewhere between 55 and 75 characters. Wider, and the eye loses its place on the way back. This layout keeps to a narrow column on purpose.

Rhythm

Consistent spacing - the same gap after every paragraph, the same before every heading - is what makes a page feel calm. Inconsistent spacing is noise the reader cannot name but can feel.

Restraint

The hardest part of design is leaving things out. This layout has no featured image and no sidebar. It has the words, and room around them.