I’ve long referred to Color, Type and Icons as the “Big 3” of a system’s visual language. All UI components — from Buttons on up — are built with them. But I left something out. Space, our final frontier. Space Rivals ColorSpace is everywhere. CSS uses properties like padding, margin, and absolute positioning’s left, right, top and bottom to separate objects. Across five libraries (Bootstrap, Sale
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