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What is the value of the 8pt system?

  • For Designers: Efficiency, less decisions to make while maintaining a quality rhythm between your elements.
  • For Teams: An easy system of communication between designers and developers (no fussing over pixels). A developer can easily eyeball an 8pt increment instead of having to measure each time.
  • For Users: Consistent aesthetic to the brand they trust. No blurry half-pixel offsets on their preferred device

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Why does my interface need to be consistent?

It doesn’t. However, if you want to have a professional and trustworthy appearance it should. 

If you’ve ever shopped online, you’ve experienced hesitation when you click to purchase and the credit card entry form looks different from the rest of the site.

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Why not 6, or 10?

The majority of popular screen sizes are divisible by 8 which makes for an easy fit. Scaling by increments of 8 offers a good amount of options without overloading you with variables like a 6 point system, or limiting you like a 10 point system. 

Ultimately you have to...

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Why 8pts?

The variety of screen sizes and pixel densities has continued to increase making the work of asset generation more complicated for designers. Utilizing an even number like 8 to size and space elements makes scaling for a wide variety of devices easy and consistent.

Use incr...

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Using the 8pt system

Using the 8pt system

We have grids for all sorts of content arrangements. We use column grids to align content horizontally. Baseline grids to vertically align bodies of text. Soft grids and hard grids to describe how strictly we adhere to them.

Reaching an aesthetically pleasing composition to the overall page...

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