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Incomplete list of mistakes in the design of CSS

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197 points OuterVale | 1 comments | 11 Dec 25 04:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.529s | source
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nfw2 ◴[11 Dec 25 05:06 UTC] No.46227886[source]▶
I'd like to propose for the list:

Default heading styles should not have equal top and bottom margin. Headings should be closer to the content they label than to the content they are setting their content apart from.

h1, h2, h3 should not have different styles. it's an anti-pattern that leads to broken accessibility

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1. quirino ◴[11 Dec 25 05:46 UTC] No.46228089[source]▶
This "headings closer to the content" suggestion is very good.

I came across it when reading Butterick's Practical Typography and it's possibly the lowest effort/clearest improvement guideline in the book.

Now I can't unsee websites that do it wrong.