The reading desk

A little less, seen more clearly.

We tend to describe a composition by what it contains: a headline, an image, a line. Yet the space between these things is also doing work. It separates one thought from the next. It lets a small detail become a point of attention.

Negative space is not a rule to make everything minimal. It is a relationship. A dense page can still have a deliberate pause; an almost empty page can still feel unresolved.

Instead of asking what else belongs here, ask what deserves a little more room.

Start with one interval: the distance between a title and its first sentence. Change nothing else. Notice when the two feel connected, and when they begin to drift apart.